Food Safety and Environmental Testing

Novel Food, Alternative Protein & Plant-Derived Ingredient Validation

Comprehensive molecular, compositional, and impurity profiling for cellular agriculture, precision fermentation, insect proteins, bio-based ingredients, and advanced plant-based novel foods.

 

CellMade delivers an end-to-end molecular, compositional, and impurity validation suite engineered to accelerate regulatory approvals and commercial scalability for food tech innovators. Designed for cellular agriculture, precision fermentation, insect proteins, and complex plant-derived matrices, our microscale platform provides ultra-sensitive analytical clearance—from comprehensive lipidomics and NGS-based genomic stability down to trace host cell proteins (HCPs) and natural anti-nutrients. By replacing resource-heavy macro-methods with high-throughput micro-assays requiring only milligrams of precious sample, we generate the authoritative proof of purity, safety, and substantial equivalence required for swift EFSA compliance and market entry.

 

  • High-Purity Biomass & Compositional Profiling: Full amino acid sequencing, lipidomics, carbohydrate characterization, micronutrient mapping, and structural protein analysis across cultured, microbial, insect, and complex plant matrices.

  • Expression, Host Strain & Botanical Genetics Verification: Molecular verification of precision fermentation hosts and novel plant cultivars using qPCR, Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) for genomic stability, and RNA-Seq for transcriptomics and adventitious agent screening.

  • Process-Related Impurity & Anti-Nutrient Tracing: Microscale quantitation of host cell proteins (HCPs), residual DNA, cellular debris, extraction solvents, media carryover, and natural plant anti-nutrients (e.g., phytates, lectins, alkaloids, saponins).

  • Authenticity & Substantial Equivalence: Precision comparative matrix matching comparing novel animal-free, microbial, or plant-derived isolates against conventional reference foods to satisfy EFSA safety and equivalence criteria.