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Meanwhile in Uk…
Many readers have asked us to shed some light on the situation of Novel Food Regulations in the UK after Brexit. The best way is to refer to the Food Standard Agency website where there is a dedicated section “Novel Foods authorization guidance“. Let us try to summarize the most relevant parts: – Novel foods […]
Edible insects at EU Parliament
The document “What if insects were on the menu in Europe” – made by EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service Authors: Nera Kuljanic with Samuel Gregory-Manning, Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA) – is prepared for, and addressed to, the Members and staff of the European Parliament as background material to assist them in their parliamentary work. […]
DL Novel Food on Kickstarter
DL Novel Food is the “made in Italy” startup founded by Luca Costamagna and Davide Storino who deals with the intensive production of crickets for the production of flours for animal and human food. Luca and Davide immediately realized that something in the traditional method of insect breeding did not work and that it would […]
Maria Clemente joined our team
I am Maria, I’m 26 and I am an evolutionary biologist with the passion for insects’ world; and I talk about “world” thinking of the incredible variety of ecological niches that insects can colonize. At the beginning, I got interested into the use of insects as food and feed because of their key potential in […]
Les Criquets Migrateurs
Interview with Sebastien Collin and Annie Ruelle-Sanguine, founders of Les Criquets Migrateurs Tell us about how you firts became interested in edible insects Everything started in 2011, when the french news broadcasted a short documentary about edible insects in Laos. Sébastien was studying biology, and he was in the middle of deciding where his studies […]
Novel Food: new applications
The Belgian Insect Industry Federation submitted two new dossiers for house crickets and grasshoppers! This is a great new, especially because they didn’t apply for data protection. More infos on the Novel Food application here.