Court tosses Onego's egg-protein suit; Abu Dhabi opens tastings
A Delaware judge dismissed Onego Bio's suit against The EVERY Co on October 9 without ruling on whether EVERY's egg-protein patent is valid, so that question stays open.
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A Delaware judge dismissed Onego Bio's suit against The EVERY Co on October 9 without ruling on whether EVERY's egg-protein patent is valid, so that question stays open [29].
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Abu Dhabi will let cultivated-meat and precision-fermentation companies hold public tastings before they have UAE sales approval [32].
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Danish startup Algiecel opened an industrial microalgae plant with nearly five times its pilot's capacity, aimed at replacing fish oil in pet food and cosmetics [34].
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UK regulators ordered all eggs from one Kyiv supplier withdrawn after Salmonella Enteritidis turned up, a newly found outbreak strain tied to 36 illnesses in England this year [49].
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Food Safety News recaps the cultivated-meat shake-out: over $2.5 billion invested from 2021 through 2023, then Meatable, CellRev, Upstream Foods and Believer Meats shut down [55].
The Stories: the day’s biggest developments, in the sources’ own words
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Delaware court dismisses Onego Bio's egg-protein patent suit against The EVERY Co
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A federal judge in Delaware dismissed Onego Bio's lawsuit against The EVERY Co on October 9, ending a patent fight between the two precision-fermentation egg-protein makers that began in September 2025 [29][33]. The court found it had no jurisdiction to declare that Onego does not infringe, and made no finding on whether EVERY's ovalbumin patent is valid, so EVERY could still assert it later [29]. A parallel Wisconsin suit was thrown out in May [29]. The EVERY Co's protein is already in products sold at Walmart, Target and Amazon, Green Queen reports [33].
“The evidence before me doesn’t show that EVERY did anything to assert its rights against Onego. On the contrary, the facts make clear that Onego played the instigator.”
Joshua D. Wolson, US district judge, Delaware · [29]
“We welcome the decision that there is no infringement claim against Onego, no challenge to our freedom to operate, and no litigation between us anymore.”
Maija Itkonen, cofounder and CEO, Onego Bio · [29]
By the numbers
up to 13extra amino acids Onego said EVERY's protein carries compared with egg ovalbumin, the basis of its false-advertising claim, which the judge rejected for lack of standing [33]
Abu Dhabi sets rules for public tastings of cultivated meat before UAE approval
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Abu Dhabi's government has created a framework that lets companies hold public tastings and sensory studies of novel foods such as cultivated meat and precision-fermented proteins before they win full UAE approval for sale, Green Queen reports [32]. The Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council wrote it with ADAFSA and the Abu Dhabi Investment Office, and ADAFSA reviews each trial application [32]. Tastings are not sales: full approval is still required before anything is sold [32].
By the numbers
six to nine monthsis the cut in approval timelines the three agencies aimed for when they began drafting a sale-approval framework a year ago [32]
four-million-litreis the size of the precision fermentation facility the Abu Dhabi Investment Office is exploring with Vivici and The Every Company [32]
Danish startup Algiecel opens industrial microalgae plant to replace fish oil in pet food and cosmetics
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Algiecel has opened an industrial-scale plant inside Novonesis's Kalundborg site in Denmark, making microalgae-based fish-oil alternatives for pet food and cosmetics [34]. It grows the algae on CO2 captured from an on-site biogas plant, and the build lifts its capacity nearly fivefold over the pilot [34]. Green Queen ties tight fish-oil supply to El Niño and overfishing, the gap fish-free omega-3 makers are aiming at [34].
“We’ve run our pilot reactor for more than 10,000 operational hours, and the biology performs as we designed it to.”
5,500 litresof total bioreactor volume, 3,240 of it growing microalgae, against 700 litres in the pilot system [34]
12 tonnesof microalgal biomass a year, expected starting next year [34]
31%drop in fish-oil supply across leading producer regions by early June, versus 12 months earlier [34]
60 million kroner ($9M)raised by Algiecel in 2024 [34]
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Worth Knowing
Wins & Culture
Plate pick: tahini beans with smashed cucumbers from Sophie Macfie's book Soph's Plant Kitchen 30 in 30, butter beans and smoked tofu in a tahini sauce, listed at 40 grams of protein and 21 grams of fiber per portion [57].
Activism & Animals
A bioRxiv preprint on six captive chimpanzees at the Sigean African Reserve in France found they responded faster to alarm-plus-recruitment call sequences played from one loudspeaker than from two, which the authors read as compositional syntax [47].
Vox's Your Mileage May Vary column answers parents of a nine-year-old who went vegan in a meat-eating household by telling them to set the diet debate aside and decide how much moral autonomy she gets [39].
Law & Policy
Eurogroup for Animals says the European Commission's EU Livestock Strategy makes no reference to the systemic change needed to cut animal suffering and stays centred on strengthening EU livestock production [48].
Research & Nutrition
A proteomics review of cultivated meat reports up to 45% variability in protein-group identifications between sample-preparation protocols, which it names a key obstacle to cross-laboratory comparability and regulatory acceptance [17].
One Good Thing
Villages in Papua New Guinea keep a custom of closing parts of their reefs to fishing for a time, like fallow farmland, and a global analysis of nearly 1,700 reefs flagged the site as a bright spot [40]. A University of Sydney team has now reviewed more than 70 such success stories, from those reefs to West African chimpanzees, Canada's grizzly bears and Tasmania's shy albatross, and found the same three ingredients: local knowledge valued alongside science, communities in the decision seat, and management fitted to the place [11][40]. Josh Cinner, who has worked with these coastal communities for more than 25 years, calls the reef "a story of hope and connection" [40].
