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Tiny Farms: a network to re-think the edible insects farming
Interview with Daniel Situnayake, founder of Tiny Farms How did you get involved in the edible insects business? Our team was exploring the potential for controlled environment agriculture to reduce the distance between people and their food. We noticed companies starting to design products around edible insects, but the insect supply was very limited. With […]
SeedsAndChips Milan: food meets technology
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The University of Alicante bets on flies
Interview with Yelitza Velasquez, BioFlyTech Tell us about BioFlyTech project Bioflytech is a Technology Based Company of the University of Alicante. Our company develops products and procedures related with the artificial rearing of insects. Bioflytech offers solutions from the Biotechnology to the growing demand of alternative proteins and effective pollinators. Our products are raw materials […]
The edible insects industry needs to meet also a “less-privileged” target
Interview with David Gorge Gordon, The Bug Chef Let’s know about your passion for using edible insects in the kitchen: how did everything start? I became interested in edible insects in the mid-1990s, while researching my book The Compleat Cockroach. Among other things, that book contained brief essays on cockroaches as food and as medicine. […]
Draft guidance on applications for novel foods: EFSA’s public consultation
EFSA has launched a public consultation on two draft guidance documents in the area of novel foods. EFSA developed the documents following the adoption in November 2015 of the EU Regulation on novel foods. The first document specifies the requirements applicants need to meet when submitting applications for the authorisation of novel foods. The second […]
EAT: Stockholm Food Forum 2016
EAT Stockholm Food Forum is taking place in Sweden on June 13th – 14th 2016, at the Clarion Hotel Sign. The third Forum brings together some of the world’s brightest people in the fields of science, politics, civil society to shift food systems towards greater sustainability, security, and equity within the boundaries of our planet. […]
