"The SFA team and I visited the NUS-L'Oreal joint research lab located at the NUS Agritech Centre. L'Oreal has a global 4000 scientific workforce with about 15 scientists in Singapore.
L'Oreal has been growing high-value phytochemical crops to extract materials for their cosmeceutical products. L'Oreal has set a sustainable 2030 goal where 95% of its product ingredients are to be derived only from bio-materials. Climate impact on open-field agriculture is also a real concern.
Thus L'Oreal has initiated this project with NUS to demonstrate the potential of Microbiome technology (use of microbes to help crop roots absorb nutrients more efficiently) to raise the yield of phytochemical ingredients from their vertical farm," shares Hian Lim Chan on LinkedIn.