Mzansi Meat

Industry

Alternative proteins

Topics

Cultivated meat & seafood

Role

Producer — “…development for animal and plant cells (isolation, sourcing, immortalisation, genetic engineering, banking) -…”

Parent / group

Newform Foods

Why it is bioeconomy

Mzansi Meat (now Newform Foods) is a South African biotechnology company focused on producing cultivated meat products.

Not yet cited as a supplier in a graded solution.

• 2023-08 Latest status: Mzansi Meat rebranded to Newform Foods and relocated its headquarters to the UK. ↗ ↗ ↗
• 2026-04-15 SA biotech start-up makes strides to lower the costs of cultivated meat
  Mzansi Meat was a local cell-cultured meat company that rebranded as Newform Foods and moved its headquarters to the UK, indicating limited local activity in the SA cultivated-meat industry.
• 2026-04-19 South African Biotech Startup Innovates to Reduce Cultivated Meat Costs
  Mzansi Meat has rebranded as Newform Foods and relocated its headquarters to the UK, indicating its exit from the South African market and a shift of its focus offshore.
• 2026-04-26 Breakthrough for lab-grown meat – but it’s no threat to livestock farming
  Immobazyme and CSIR’s breakthrough lowers the cost of FGF-2 for lab-grown meat in South Africa, but it’s not expected to threaten conventional livestock farming soon; instead, it could create new opportunities in the cultivated-meat value chain and may coexist …
• 2026-04-21 Are We Saving Animals to Poison Humans?
  Mzansi Meat (Newform Foods) is portrayed skeptically: the article questions lab-grown “cultivated” meat as potentially unsafe or influenced by global elites, warns against hidden agendas, and urges caution about health risks and governance behind the …
• 2026-03-20 SA biotech makes critical molecule for lab-grown meat - IT-Online
  SA biotech Immobazyme, supported by CSIR, has scaled up production of fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) for lab-grown meat, achieving a 50-litre bioreactor demonstration in South Africa. This localizes a key growth-factor supply, enabling more cost-effective …
• 2026-04-16 CSIR Lab-Grown Meat Breakthrough | South Africa Cultured
  Mzansi Meat, rebranded to Newform Foods, is moving toward pilots for a cultivated burger and plays a key role in a broader SA biomanufacturing ecosystem supported by CSIR, with potential to scale into a R10B industry and export FGF-2 globally.

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