Milestone: Over 80x cost reduction in our animal-free medium

It’s already been a really exciting year at Mosa Meat. Last month, we moved to our pilot plant facility, and earlier this month Bell Food Group expanded their stake in Mosa Meat by investing a further €5 million. 

But that’s not all - our “Medium Optimisation” (MO) team has been working hard to improve our cell culture media (the nutrient broths which feed the cells so they can proliferate), and drive down their cost.

Last year, the MO team successfully removed Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) from our media. Given FBS is the standard used in cell culturing, this was no small task. But FBS comes from unborn calves and is obtained inhumanely, so removing it was a top priority. 

Some of our hard-working MO team.

Since then, the MO team has been working to ensure the media we use is completely animal component-free. In addition to this, they’ve made a huge amount of progress in lowering the cost, which is vital given the medium will be the most expensive part of our process. Indeed, after successfully developing animal-free media, the MO team has reduced the cost by 88 times. 

A graph showing the cost reduction over time.

Though we still need to bring the cost down further (which will happen when we scale), we are really excited to have made such significant progress in a short period.

And we are very proud of our amazing MO team for reaching this milestone!