Is the development of low-cost media one of the greatest challenges to produce cultivated meat on an industrial scale?

Cultivated meat (CM) has emerged as an “ethical” alternative for the consumption of meat, avoiding animal slaughter and safeguarding care. The idea behind cell cultivation, differentiation proliferation is old, but investments, technological developments first efforts to produce CM on industrial scale are very recent. There many challenges bottlenecks within this new market, including social, environmental, technological, regulatory logistic aspects; however, emphasis article composition culture media cells development, which strongly attached economy (component costs) ethics (components origin). Traditional basal (such Eagle´s Minimum Essential Medium Ham´s F-12) comprise energy carbon sources, vitamins, amino acids trace elements; requirements development skeletal muscle demand other components origin, such fetal bovine serum and/or growth factors, hormones inducers. Recent articles patents have reported substitution these components, use recombinant albumin, postbiotics, microalgal extracts. Despite efforts, current market still in its “first childhood” with 107 enterprises around world, just a few them authorized commercialize CM; price final consumer is, best case, 7.5 times higher when compared traditional meat. Therefore, from our point view, there long way go developing product establishing global market.