Gilles FAYARD

Great news from France! 🇫🇷 The French government is boosting its local plant-based food production with a major €12M investment towards ‘Protein Sovereignty’ across 10 projects. This funding is part of the ministry’s National Strategy for Plant Proteins, an initiative to create more local products and rely less on imported proteins. Consumer demand for plant-based foods is booming in France. Sales grew by 9% in 2024, reaching a massive €537M, which makes France Europe's third-largest market. Chilled meat alternatives saw an even bigger jump, with 15.5% growth. Research also suggests that the French have reduced their animal-based meat consumption in the last two decades. In fact, the government’s new projects align with the 35% of French residents who rate legumes and pulses among the richest sources of protein, and the two-thirds who now eat foods like lentils and beans weekly. Let’s hope France continues to invest in plant-based proteins and meet the growing demand for local, nutritious, and sustainable food! 🌱 📖 Read more about France’s investment in plant-based production: https://hubs.ly/Q03BVlsr0 #ProVeg #SustainableFuture #PlantBasedProtein

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🎉 Funding news 🎉 To build more resilient food systems and support protein diversification, infrastructure that can turn locally produced crops into tasty, affordable foods is essential. Newly announced funding from the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food seeks to do just that – investing €11.7 million to support protein sovereignty and expand the production of plant-protein ingredients using locally grown crops. The funding is distributed to ten winning projects through the Ministry’s “Territorial Legume Sector Projects” call – a mechanism aiming to support collective projects committed to the development of national production of plant proteins. The announced support is part of France’s National Strategy for Plant Proteins, launched in 2020, aiming to reduce the country’s dependence on imported protein crops and ingredients. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dP-Z37Ru #France #PlantProteins #PlantBased

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Listeria – an invisible threat in food production Listeria monocytogenes is a serious challenge: it survives refrigeration, forms biofilms, and can multiply in ready-to-eat foods – posing significant health risks, especially to vulnerable groups. Why regular testing is essential: ✔️ Early detection of contamination ✔️ Evaluation of hygiene processes ✔️ Compliance with audits ✔️ Fast decision-making with real-time PCR Unlike traditional methods that take days, real-time PCR delivers results within hours – a major advantage for quality assurance and product safety. SureFast® Listeria 3plex ONE - AOAC- & MicroVal-certified qPCR test | ISO 16140-2 validated. More kit info: https://hubs.la/Q03CTZkx0 Read more about Listeria: https://hubs.la/Q03CT_KN0 #FoodSafety #Listeria #QualityControl #PCR #HygieneManagement #ReadyToEat

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🔔 Sustell™: MiXscience and dsm-firmenich Animal Nutrition & Health Join Forces for More Sustainable Farming 🔔   We are pleased to announce the collaboration between Sustell™ and MiXscience, Avril’s innovation and expertise-driven animal nutrition company.   Sustell™ is an industry leading solution for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the livestock sector. Developed by dsm-firmenich Animal Nutrition & Health over several years in conjunction with partners and stakeholders, Sustell™ provides a scalable, end-to-end ISO assured environmental assessment of the animal value chain from feed to farm to processed products allowing to understand the details of current footprint while being able to run scenarios to determine where and how to improve. Sustell™ is compliant with international standards and sector-specific methodologies (FAO LEAP, EU PEF, IPCC…).   The use of Sustell will enable MiXscience to reliably, credibly, conveniently and accurately characterize the environmental impacts of the products it develops and nutritional strategies it designs, those of its feed millers’ clients, and even the entire value chain.   💬 Nathalie Couvreur – Head of CSR, and Matthieu CHATILLON – Director of Innovation at MiXscience : “This collaboration will help accelerate the transition toward more responsible, sustainable, and profitable agriculture. Sustell™ enhances our environmental impacts measurement strategy, initiated in 2019 with MatriCIEL®, and more recently through predictive tools for nutritional and carbon efficiency in livestock, such as ADN, Megaplan, and Icownic. Sustell™ marks a key milestone in our ambition to decarbonize livestock farming.”   #Sustell #Mixscience #DSM #Avril #LCA #SustainableAgriculture #Decarbonization #Transparency #Innovation #ResponsibleFarming

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🚀 Scaling True Seeds for a Sustainable Future – A Potato Revolution 🥔✨   iGrownews.com just released an article in which Charles Miller was asked about the advantages of true potato seeds and how Solynta is bridging regulation and potato grower adoption to the new, and impactful way of growing potatoes from true potato seeds. The key takeaways from this article are:     A Solynta’s hybrid breeding model is changing how the world grows potatoes — replacing heavy, disease-prone seed tubers with lightweight, efficient true potato seeds 🌱.   🌍 From Kenya’s tropical highlands to 40+ countries spanning East Africa to Canada, trials are paving the way for climate-smart farming worldwide.   🔬 Solynta has even publicly released its diploid potato genome to fuel open innovation.   💡 Non-GMO. Less pesticide use. Reduced crop losses. A new chapter for global food security.   Read more about this breakthrough here: https://lnkd.in/e2G4MvZc    #AgTech #PotatoInnovation #FoodSecurity #HybridBreeding #SustainableFarming #Solynta #truepotatoseeds

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ENZYMATIC EXPERTISE 🌾🍞 Is the fluctuating quality of wheat affecting your flours and finished products? Rely on the performance of our enzymes, the result of over 20 years of expertise! The quality of flour is inseparable from the intrinsic characteristics of wheat, which are themselves strongly influenced by factors such as variety, origin, and climatic conditions. This natural variability, which changes from year to year, complicates the work of millers and bakers: it affects flour stability, alters dough rheology, and compromises the consistency of finished products. To correct these imbalances, enzymes are especially powerful technological tools. Their ability to precisely target key flour components makes them highly effective. However, it takes expertise to select, dose, and most importantly, master the synergy between their different activities. That’s where our added value lies: drawing on deep knowledge of raw materials and recognized formulation expertise, we develop custom enzyme complexes designed to compensate for wheat variability. The result: stable, consistent flour for finished products that meet your standards and your clients’ expectations. Find all our wheat quality analyses and correction advice for your flours in our Wheat Quality Reports! Want to ensure the reliability of your flours with our enzymes? 🌾🍞 👉🏼 Contact us: [email protected] #enzymes #wheat #flour #milling #bakery #ingredientsolutions

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NeoFarm Raises €30M to Scale Robotic Organic Farms Across Europe French startup NeoFarm has raised €30 million in Series B funding to accelerate the deployment of its robotic, regenerative vegetable farms across Europe. The round was co-led by ADEME Investissement and Eurazeo Smart City, which together contributed nearly €20 million, with participation from Bpifrance, Cléry, and the Karl Leitzgen family office. Founded in 2018, NeoFarm develops automated farms rooted in agroecology, combining robotics and farm management software to increase efficiency while reducing environmental impact. The company holds three patents for its proprietary robotics technology. In its official announcement, NeoFarm emphasized its long-term vision: “Our ambition is to reconcile agricultural performance, environmental respect, farmer well-being, and food sovereignty. Thanks to the support of our investors and partners, we will launch our first large-scale farm in 2025 and aim to deploy more than 25 farms by 2030.” Article in the first comment 👇 Join the network at network.igrownews.com

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I am very pleased to announce our partnership with Avantium and LVMH to accelerate the industrial production of PEF (polyethylene furanoate), a 100% renewable high-performance polymer, and marketed by Avantium under the brand 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐟®. Sustainability is at the heart of TEREOS development strategy: we are decarbonizing our production chain and providing solutions with bio-based materials to our industrial partners, enabling them to replace fossil inputs in their products. This strategic alliance builds on the complementarity of our expertise, allowing us to cover the entire PEF value chain: Tereos is a leader in fructose production - the raw material for PEF, derived from wheat processing - Avantium, an expert in innovative technology, and LVMH, a pioneer in the use of bio-based packaging. This milestone is a major step towards our ambition for regenerative agriculture and sustainable industry accross our value chains. It is also essential for the development of the bio-based plastics sector in Europe. I would like to warmly thank all Tereos’ teams who made this partnership a reality. Special thanks to Aalst’s team.

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📊 #Eurobarometer survey on food safety: what do Europeans think about food safety in 2025? 🥗 Cost, taste, and safety drive decisions. 🍭 When it comes to food safety awareness, additives top thecome first in the list of topics. 😟 The presence of chemical contaminants is the top concern about food risks. Scroll through our carousel for highlights and explore the full findings → https://lnkd.in/d98CjNpD #FoodSafety #EFSA #TrustInScience #HealthyChoices

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