Eat Just, QFZA partner to build Mena region’s first cultivated meat facility

Doha: Eat Just, a US-based company specialising in cutting-edge science and technology to create healthier, more sustainable foods, yesterday announced that it has partnered with Doha Venture Capital (DVC) and Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZA), to build the first-ever cultivated meat facility in the Middle East and Northern Africa (Mena) region.

The regional sustainable food hub will be located in the Umm Alhoul Free Zone, one of two free zones overseen and regulated by QFZA, with direct access to Hamad Port. The hub will comprise a large-scale facility for Eat Just’s GOOD Meat division, which created the world’s first-to-market meat made from animal cells instead of slaughtered livestock, and has branches in Singapore. There are plans to add a protein processing facility for JUST Egg, the company’s plant-based egg division. The hub will be staffed with research and development, engineering and business development professionals. This will be the first facility in the protein innovation space in QFZs and the Gulf, as QFZA is focused on bringing together leading global companies using innovative technologies to build a more sustainable future.