“BlueNalu, which plans to introduce products into a test market in two to three years, and break ground on its first large-scale, Food and Drug Administration-compliant production facility in five years, said its future plants will each be designed to serve regional population centers.”
Read More“This is the first time that any company has provided facility design schematics illustrating the vision for large-scale production of foods via cellular agriculture or aquaculture.”
Read More“BlueNalu appears to be more focused on creating a generic process capable of producing flesh of a variety of species.”
Read More“Lou Cooperhouse, chief executive, said the company planned to begin test marketing cell-grown mahi-mahi, also known as dorado or dolphin fish, around its home base in San Diego within two to three years.”
Read MoreThis is not a fad or a trend — this is happening,” Lou Cooperhouse, BlueNalu’s founder, told NPR. “We will produce real seafood products directly from fish cells.”
Read More“Many food products already contain cells as ingredients or catalysts, e.g. yogurt, bread, kombucha, cheese. In our case, fish cells are similar to those grown for these products and require the same care such as the right feed and environment to grow.”
Read More“Lou Cooperhouse has said the team are just months away from producing a first in the world of cell-based food. The aim is to produce whole muscle, medallion-size pieces of yellowtail amberjack, followed by mahi mahi...”
Read More“Besides eliminating toxic chemicals like mercury, cellular aquaculture can also create fish in its final filet form. You might never have to peel a shrimp or pull a fishbone out of your teeth again.”
Read More“Lou Cooperhouse is a globally-recognized expert in food innovation, technology commercialization and business incubation. His 35-year career in the food industry has been at the forefront of new culinary trends, and he has been and industry pioneer in the utilization of numerous food technologies…”
Read More“There are also innovations with cell-based meat... BlueNalu is growing cell-based seafood.”
Read More“Just like Professor Post, BlueNalu employees extract muscle cells from a particular fish to grow in a lab. Ultimately the vision for these cells is to be cultivated in a lab until they grow large sheets of whole muscle tissue that can then be packaged for sale."
Read More“Within ten years, BlueNalu expects to be one of the first companies to launch lab-grown seafood on an industrial scale that is price competitive with traditional farm-raised and wild fish. BlueNalu has already begun preparations for meeting with the US Food and Drug Administration to determine the processes it will need to complete.”
Read More“Companies like Wild Type, BlueNalu, and Finless Foods wager that, in the age of Silicon Valley-masterminded plant-based burgers, there’s space and hunger for seafood grown in the lab.”
Read More“Mahi mahi, Chilean sea bass, orange roughy, crab and lobster are all premium species Cooperhouse said his company is targeting at this time. He said he's not interested in making a big splash with a product that disappoints.”
Read More"Cooperhouse reiterated that his company was five years from being able to sell his products commercially, but said it would offer a wide slew of fish varieties and be as inexpensive as the wild-caught or farm-raised fish being replicated within five years of being on the market."
Read More"Unlike the plant-based Impossible Burger, what BlueNalu are creating is basically meat grown from cells so they can control production and what is produced and it doesn't have a long term effect on fish stocks"
Read More"Challenges currently sidetracking the global seafood industry, such as overfishing, illegal fishing, rising ocean temperatures and contaminated fish, make it absolutely necessary to find ways to make seafood more sustainable"
Read More"Cell based seafood is a new solution in which real seafood is produced from the cells of the fish."
Read More"As the global demand for seafood continues to rise, one San Diego company has come up with a scientific solution to try and keep up with supply."
Read More"What if the fish in your favorite sushi came from a lab instead of the ocean?...That technology is being created, as we speak, by a company right here in San Diego."
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