Intelligence for the food technology industry
The 28 September release gives two percentages and no volumes. A 2024 BizTimes site visit reported the same project would double capacity and make West Allis the world's largest lactic-bacteria site. Completion was announced as 66% and 'one of' the largest. No project cost has been disclosed.
A Delaware judge ended Onego Bio's suit against The EVERY Company on 9 October 2026 without ruling on validity or infringement. What the order decides, what it leaves open, and what a formulator buying recombinant egg protein should still ask a supplier.
Omeat sought FDA sign-off for bovine plasma protein at up to 90% of finished cultivated beef by weight, then withdrew the notice. Its 2026 refiling, filed the same window the company rebranded as Evergreen, asks for the same substance at roughly 9%.
The FSANZ Board approved application A1341 about five weeks after the late-August window trade press reported, and announced it a week later. Approval is not permission to sell: on the only precedent, gazettal came 70 days after the Board. The conditions published so far are the consultation draft, not the final text.
FDA's 9 Oct draft guidance creates a third tier of retailers and restaurants it would not police under the Food Traceability Rule. On our reading of the rule text, it does not change a manufacturer's shipping records. The lot-code agenda could.