Argentinian pharmaceutical company, Craveri Laboratories invested in a cellular agriculture division to pursue the research and development of cell based meat. The division is called BIFE (Bio Ingeniería en la Fabricación de Elaborados, or Bioengineering in Processed Foods Manufacturing). BIFE is the first and only company based in Argentina working on cell based meat. Argentina is a major global beef supplier and in 2019 became the leading exporter of beef to China by a small fraction skirting past Brazil.