Chinese startup Joes Future Food has significantly advanced China’s position in the global cultivated meat industry by completing the nation’s largest pilot plant, capable of producing 10 to 50 tonnes of cell-cultured products annually. This development closely follows the world’s first large-scale trial production of cultivated pork in a 2,000-litre bioreactor using a low-cost, serum-free medium, a major technical breakthrough for the company, which was spun out of Nanjing Agricultural University in 2019 and has since raised over $14 million. Co-founder and CEO Ding Shijie confirms the facility is undergoing test runs while the company, which has filed more cultivated meat patent families (25) than any company globally besides Upside Foods, pursues regulatory approval in Singapore and is preparing animal toxic data in China, where government support for alternative proteins is strong; they anticipate safety assessment for the technology by the end of 2026 and plan to launch products like pork chops first.
Source: Joes Future Food Builds China’s Largest Lab-Grown Meat Facility