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Our commitment to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Progress Biotech's products are best characterized by a focus on sustainability and health, for both people and planet. We are committed to contributing to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, highlighted in the drop-down menu below. In 2024, Progress Biotech was interviewed by the Ingredients Insight magazine regarding
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SDG2: Zero hunger
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SDG 2.1: By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
Our commitment: SDG 2.4: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality. Our commitment: |
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SDG3: Good health and well-being
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SDG 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.
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SDG12: Responsible consumption and production
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SDG 12.3: By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.
Our commitment: SDG 12.4: By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment. Our commitment: SDG 12.5: By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse. Our commitment: |
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SDG14: Life below water
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SDG 14.2: By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans.
Our commitment: SDG 14.4: By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics. Our commitment: |
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SDG17: Partnerships for the goals
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SDG 17.16: Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries.
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A simplified version of the marine food chain, with energy and nutrient flow.
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The marine food chain
The marine food chain is a complex system. Every organism inhabiting our oceans and seas plays a certain role to maintain a healthy ecosystem. As pictured on the left, the chain starts with plankton, a group that contains both plants (such as microalgae) and tiny organisms (such as larvae). Through consumption, energy and nutrients (such as Omega-3 fatty acids) are transferred from each group to the next. Microalgae produce high amounts of Omega-3 fatty acids and act as a crucial source for this nutrient in the marine food chain. |
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Omega-3's - straight from the source
Originally, traditional Omega-3 oils were made using marine sources such as fish or krill. These animals were and still are obtained through fishing or aquaculture. Both these practices put huge strains on our marine ecosystems by removing nutrients |
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and energy from a circular system. As such, many species in our oceans are negatively affected by declining population levels and decreasing biodiversity. Additionally, these animals accumulate contaminants such as heavy metals or PFAS throughout their life, which can be harmful to our health if consumed.
Progress Biotech's workflow eliminates the need to use our oceans for production of Omega-3 fatty acids. We use factories to grow Schizochytrium Sp., a type of microalga found in mangroves that naturally produces high levels of DHA. This allows us to produce high-quality, plant-based, contaminant-free Omega-3 fatty acids without harming marine ecosystems.
Progress Biotech's workflow eliminates the need to use our oceans for production of Omega-3 fatty acids. We use factories to grow Schizochytrium Sp., a type of microalga found in mangroves that naturally produces high levels of DHA. This allows us to produce high-quality, plant-based, contaminant-free Omega-3 fatty acids without harming marine ecosystems.
