Swiss food companies Yumame Foods and Le Patron have announced a strategic collaboration, aiming to create new plant-based foods that are tasty, healthy and sustainable.

The European Commission has announced a new strategy aimed at establishing the EU as a global leader in life sciences, with a strong focus on food innovation.

The UK government has announced its Digital & Technology Sector Plan as part of its broader Industrial Strategy, including a £184m Engineering Biology Scale-up Infrastructure Programme to build and upgrade facilities.

New School Foods has announced the formation of NS/TX Industries (NS/TX): an expanded company that will house its manufacturing platform, consumer brand and manufacturing operations.

Dutch food-tech company Rival Foods has raised €10 million in Series B growth financing, supporting the scale-up of its plant-based whole cut meat alternatives.

French food-tech start-up Fungu’it has secured €4 million in funding to accelerate industrial-scale production of its natural flavourings made from agricultural by-products.

Arkeon, an Austrian biotech company developing sustainable protein via gas fermentation, has formally filed for insolvency.

Alt-seafood start-up Efishient Protein has successfully developed its first plant-based prototype of a grouper fish fillet.

Protein Industries Canada has announced additional funding to help strengthen Canada’s plant-based ingredient supply chain through genomics and artificial intelligence programmes.