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Novel foods: the need of collective applications
As you may know, the European Commission is updating the Novel Food regulations from January 2018 so that whole insects and products containing whole/ground up insects have to be formally approved before they can be legally sold across the EU. Approvals can be granted for products that have undergone a proprietary process, eg. “grasshoppers that have […]
Edible insects: green light in Switzerland from May
Here is the document from the Swiss Authorities about the new set of rules that from the 1st of May will allow the production and the marketing of three species of edible insects: Tenebrio molitor, Acheta domesticus and Locusta migratoria. Download here the full document, available in: Italian French German
IPIFF: international Conference on edible insects
IPIFF is delighted to invite you to this major event organized by the EU umbrella organization for the edible insect production sector. Bringing together insect producing companies, high level representatives from EU Institutions, industry&consumers’ representatives, this conference aims to take stock of relevant EU legislative developments&explore future opportunities on the use of insects for food […]
LagunaLab: insects in an integrated farming system
Interview with Alberto Franco, founder of LagunaLab Tell us about LagunaLab and how you got involved in the edible insects world LagunaLab is a project from Cimi S.r.l., a company born in order to rear freshwater shrimps (astropotamobius pallipes). After 2014 all the production died because of the arrive of the Louisiana Red Shrimp (Procambarus […]
Cockroaches to innovate the food industry in Brazil
Interview with students Andressa Jantzen and Lauren Menegon (photo) and Prof. Myriam Salas Mellado, Food Science and Technology Laboratory of Federal University of Rio Grande (Brazil). You’ve recently concluded a study on producing flour from edible insects. How did you get interested in this topic? While trying to innovate the food industry in Brazil our […]
AgriProtein and Christof Industries in USD 10 million deal
13 February 2017: AgriProtein and Christof Industries in USD 10 million deal to roll out 100 fly farms Waste-to-nutrient pioneer AgriProtein has partnered with international engineering group Christof Industries to build up to 25 fly farms a year up-cycling organic waste into insect protein for animal feeds. Using a high-tech blueprint developed with Christof Industries, […]
Goterra: insects feed made in Australia
Interview with Olympia Yarger, Goterra founder Tell us a little about you and your project Goterra Goterra is an insect farm-feed company based in Canberra Australia. We are developing commercial Black Soldier Fly farming practices. What are the products you are working on? Currently we’re focusing on artificial lighting and have developed a prototype lighting […]
