New Biotechnology Serves Benefits to the Food Industry

The Biotech Open Platform has been designed by French corporations, Danone (meals merchandise) and Michelin (tire manufacturing), and the American DMC Biotechnologies (biotechnology firm) to improve the worldwide use of fermentation for the meals business.

Fermentation is an historic method that has been tailored and refined by fashionable meals corporations to create an enormous number of merchandise which might be loved by shoppers worldwide.

The method is primarily utilized by meals and beverage corporations to supply: distinctive flavours and textures, protect and lengthen shelf life, enhance digestibility and dietary worth, create alcoholic drinks, and produce useful compounds in fermented dairy merchandise.

But this new platform makes use of precision fermentation, which is a contemporary improve that differs from conventional fermentation, by enabling exact management over microorganisms and manufacturing course of, resulting in larger effectivity and higher high quality of merchandise.

With funding from regional financial institution investor, Crédit Agricole Centre France, and a funding of over USD$17m within the first part, the platform shall be positioned in Clermont-Ferrand in France, throughout the Parc Cataroux Middle for Sustainable Supplies, an innovation accelerator supported by Michelin. 

This collaboration not solely goals to achieve entry to biotechnology analysis and options, but in addition strives to handle environmental challenges and promote a extra sustainable economic system. 

How can the meals business profit from precision fermentation?

Elevated effectivity

Fermentation processes will be optimised and managed in a extremely exact method, resulting in extra environment friendly manufacturing of desired substances, which may end up in decrease prices and elevated productiveness, making meals merchandise extra reasonably priced and accessible.

Improved meals safety

Precision fermentation can present different sources of vitamins and substances, notably in areas with restricted agricultural sources or adversarial local weather situations.