Upcycled Plant Power passes BRCGS audit, wins Eurofins plant-based certification

Upcycled Plant Power just crossed the kind of line that matters to ingredient buyers: it cleared a BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 9 audit on the first attempt and picked up Grade A Plant Based V1 certification from Eurofins. For a broccoli-waste startup trying to sell into serious food manufacturing channels, those are not vanity badges. They are the credentials that help turn a circular protein platform into something procurement teams can actually sign off on.

The certified site sits at the UK Agri-Tech Centre in Edgmond, Newport, Shropshire, where UPP runs what it calls a harvest-to-ingredient platform. The company says the operation can process 2,500 tonnes of biomass a year and turn that into 1,000 tonnes of clean-label protein and fibre ingredients annually. UPP also says automation keeps the labor footprint tiny, with the facility run by just two people, which is exactly the sort of operating detail that starts to matter once an ingredient business moves from pilot projects into repeatable manufacturing.

UPP Ltd was incorporated on June 14, 2022, and its registered office is C/O Agri-Epi Centre, Poultry Drive, Edgmond, Newport, Shropshire, TF10 8JZ. The UK Agri-Tech Centre says the company was co-founded by Pollybell Farms and built to maximize the value of crop biomass toward 100% crop utilisation, while UPP has also been working with Agri-EPI Centre on agri-tech development and deployment expertise and with The James Hutton Institute on physiology and biochemistry support. That combination points to a company that is trying to solve both the science and the factory-floor problem at once.

The timing matters because certification is often the hidden gate between a promising side-stream ingredient and an actual supply contract. BRCGS says its food safety standard sets the safety, quality and operational criteria food manufacturers need to meet legal and consumer-protection obligations, while Eurofins says BRCGS certification signals confidence across complex food supply chains. In plain terms, UPP is telling buyers that upcycled ingredients do not have to look experimental or compromise on safety credentials to earn a place in mainstream manufacturing.

The company has been building toward this moment for a while. In June 2023, a UK consortium led by UPP won an £800,000 government grant to accelerate development of low-cost, low-impact protein from upcycled broccoli. In October 2025, UPP received a £1.5 million investment from Elbow Beach. UPP has also said its certified site is the blueprint for planned 10,000-tonne modules, with the first intended for Scotland in 2027. The June 4 certifications push that plan closer to commercial reality.