Entomophagy 564
Crickerita: buying and rearing crickets
This week I decided to start the Crickerita project. Crickerita is the idea that my work group had during the lectures of the course “insects as food and feed”. First thing to do: buy the crickets! In Wageningen there is one large pet-shop that also sells various insects as feed for reptiles and birds, so […]
Insect as feed: a new note from the Italian Minister of Health
Sorry, this entry is available in italian only
Could that of edible insects be a 4.0 Industry?
We talk more and more about Industry 4.0, internet of things and machine learning. Basically it is about how to improve the production of a good through the interconnectivity of the operators involved, men and machines or even just machines and machines. This needs investments, of course, and entrepreneurs who understand the potential benefits. For […]
Insects pasta at the University of Palermo
Monday , May 8 . 9:30AM – 14:00PM Spagrillo will be participating to the scientific conference “Insetti a tavola? I Novel food e le frontiere dell’alimentazione umana“, held in the Agriculture Department, Palermo University. The topic will be discussed from different affirmed lecturers of Palermo, Bologna, Napoli and Piacenza University, as well as Paul […]
The Novel Foods and the human-nutrition frontiers
Sorry, this entry is available in italian only
Insects in the feed industry: the legal framework
The Legal Framework Currently Applicable Even though terrestrial invertebrates are listed in the catalogue of feed materials according to Regulation 68/2013/EU, the use of processed animal proteins (PAPs) derived from farmed insects is currently allowed only in feed intended to be used for pets and for animals. The reason of this restriction must be sought […]
Florian Nock joined our team at L’Entomofago
Florian Nock started getting interested by edible insects in 2013. As an environmental engineer passionate by health and nutrition, he got caught by the idea and started raising insects and experimenting in his room in France In 2014 he started the first international blog dedicated to the subject, he created his own cursus on anomophagy […]
