PILOT FACILITY FOR CULTIVATED FISH CELLS TO OPEN IN SINGAPORE

Pilot facility for cultivated fish cells to open in Singapore. The Straits Times of Singapore reports that fish fillets and even fish made from cell culture instead of slaughter could soon appear on dinner tables here, with Chinese firm Avant set to open a pilot production facility for cultivated fish cells in Singapore by next year.

This facility, announced by the firm on Monday (Sept 20), will come alongside a research laboratory by Avant and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star)’s Bioprocessing Technology Institute, which focuses on how to scale up the production of food-grade cultivated fish.

The joint research laboratory for cultivated fish bioprocessing will be located in Biopolis in Buona Vista, Singapore’s biomedical hub.

Avant and A*Star said in a statement that research at the laboratory will look into developing solutions that will allow the production of cultivated fish cells to be scaled up.

This includes, for instance, identifying key factors that affect the growth of cultivated fish cells, as well as processes to improve this.

Avant, which develops technologies for fish cell cultivation, has already managed to make products such as fish fillet, marine peptides and fish maw via cell culture.

It will combine its expertise in the area with the A*Star institute’s aptitudes in bioprocess research and development, including animal cell bioprocessing.

Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/production-facility-for-cultivated-fish-set-to-open-in-singapore-by-2022