Can Seaweed Change Our Food Supply?
Navigating global regulatory hurdles for novel products
The founders of OCEANIUM are on a mission to bring seaweed as an environmentally sustainable source of positive nutrition into the food supply at a new scale, and Exponent is providing crucial scientific and regulatory guidance to help the startup take this mission to market. Based in Scotland, OCEANIUM's team of "seaweed evangelists" develop and produce seaweed-based products for people health and planet health.
The Challenge
With livestock production contributing heavily (about 14.5% in 2021) to anthropomorphic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the need for alternative food solutions that can reverse GHG climate impact trends while providing safe, nutritious, and affordable foods for the world's growing population is mounting.
