The CSIR has developed a sustainable bioprocess to manufacture a fungal-based protein product for a South African business called MycoSure.  

Dr Ghaneshree Moonsamy, a fungal expert at the CSIR’s Biomanufacturing Industry Development Centre (BIDC), says protein production in a bioreactor offers many sustainability and cost advantages over livestock and crop protein production.  

She says MycoSure will be leveraging this technology using fungal protein, for the first time in Africa, to help address global food security. Read more...