Triton Algae Innovations scales up scientific team despite COVID challenges

In California, San Diego-based future food company Triton Algae Innovations has scaled up its hiring, adding six new team members in the last two months despite the economic and practical challenges presented by the COVID pandemic. Triton is focused on bringing to market an entirely new variety of healthy food products derived from its non-GM algae.

These hires come on the heels of an impressive run of scientific advances and regulatory milestones. In 2019 Triton Algae Innovations received a coveted “no questions” letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stating that Triton’s algae ingredient Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (C. reinhardtii) is Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) for its intended uses in food. Subsequently, the top food regulatory entity in Singapore (the Singapore Food Agency, or SFA) issued a similar finding, which authorized the use of Triton’s highly nutritious, non-GMO dried algae ingredient in consumer food products in that country, extending Triton’s global market reach.