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Sometimes, all it takes is 30 minutes to learn the ins and outs of new food technologies and trends that are transforming the food and beverage industry. In this series, we’ll dig into a food innovation topic and link you to content and resources so you can become a master on the topic in 30 minutes (or less!).
This year we dug deep into the topic of cellular food and agriculture, so now we’re recapping all of the original content posted on the topic in 2023.
CFIN worked with Moncton, NB-based data science company Fiddlehead Technology to develop a report providing insight into the potential adoption of cellular meat in Canada.
How cellular food is changing the way we produce, transport, and consume food.
New food production technology such as cellular agriculture has the potential to alleviate challenges facing the food industry, including supply chain disruptions and climate change.
Issues surrounding cellular food entering or currently on the market, and opportunities for commercialization in Canada and around the world.
CFIN’s latest virtual experience is Cultivating Success: Canada’s Big Biomanufacturing Opportunity. Here are the top five takeaways from the experience:
There are several sources of funding for companies working to develop new products, technology, and services for the emerging cellular agriculture industry in Canada.
An infographic showing the history of cellular food and precision fermentation and opportunities in Canada.
Here’s some of the terminology you may be questioning when it comes to the cellular food and agriculture sector.
New Harvest is a global non-profit research institute advancing the science of cellular agriculture, with a Canadian division based in Edmonton, AB.
Precision fermentation is a specific kind of fermentation process to create lab-grown ingredients for use in a variety of products, including food.
How emerging cellular food technology is being governed around the world, and the debate around how products will be regulated as they hit the market.
Dinner on Mars: The Technologies that Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth by Lenore Newman and Evan Fraser explores the food science and cellular food technology and production methods it will take to feed a settlement on Mars, while meeting the needs of the estimated 9.8 billion people on Earth by 2050.
If you’ve got more than 30 minutes, these are for you:
CFIN’s latest virtual experience, Cultivating Success: Canada's Big Biomanufacturing Opportunity, was hosted by cellular food experts Dr. Lenore Newman of the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley in BC, and Dr. Evan Fraser of the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph in Ontario.
CFIN’s Carolyn Cooper and food lawyer Glenford Jameson of G.S. Jameson & Co. discuss some of the future regulations around cellular food in Canada, as well as what we can learn from international regulations and experience.
CFIN’s Isabelle Marquis parle avec Catherine Lefebvre et Bernard Lavallée, nutritionnistes et co-animateurs du célèbre balado On s’appelle et on déjeune, du développement de d’aliments issus de l’agriculture cellulaire.
CFIN’s Carolyn Cooper sat down with food lawyer Glenford Jameson of G.S. Jameson & Co. to discuss the regulations governing the research, development and commercialization of cellular food in Canada.
CFIN’s Alex Barlow and Yadira Tejeda Saldana of New Harvest discuss how cellular food is created.