Netherlands’ Mosa Meat today (Nov. 3) announced an agreement with Singapore-based Esco Aster that will eventually bring Mosa Meat’s cultivated beef to Singapore, so far the only market where cultivated meat is approved.
Mosa Meat’s founders introduced the world’s first cultivated beef hamburger in 2013, by growing it directly from cow cells. Three years later they founded Mosa Meat as one of the first companies developing meats from cells. It hasn’t produced its first commercial product yet, but this Singapore agreement should be the key.
Founded in Singapore in 2017, Esco Aster is currently the first and only facility to obtain regulatory clearance to produce cultivated meat products in Singapore.
“We will now be able to produce our beef in Asia, as well as in Europe at our recently announced 7,340 square meters facility, the world’s largest cultivated meat campus to date,” said Mosa Meat CEO Maarten Bosch. But an expected date for a launch was not mentioned.
Mosa Meat grows beef by taking a sesame-seed sized sample of cells and nurturing them to naturally grow into beef. The company can make 80,000 hamburgers from a single cell sample — all without harming a single cow.
Headquartered in Maastricht, The Netherlands, Mosa Meat is a privately held company backed by Blue Horizon, M Ventures, Bell Food Group, Nutreco, Mitsubishi Corporation, Leonardo DiCaprio and other notable investors.
