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The situation in Uk after Brexit
Woven Network‘s recent Press Release explains the situation of the edible insects industry in Uk after Brexit: Parliament agrees to Transition Arrangement opening up the GB market for products containing 6 different edible insects 30 November 2022 Following BREXIT and months of uncertainty around the status of edible insects in the UK market, the Woven Network […]
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 […]
Workshop: insects farming in UK
There is increasing interest in using insects in our food supply chains, as well as a source of non-food products, such as biodiesel. Insect farming could soon become another aspect of the UK agricultural industry. This workshop, organised by ADAS with support from the British Ecological Society, the Royal Entomological Society, and the Woven Network […]
Edible insects: a collective EU application is possible
I am just back from the conference: “The EU Novel Food Regulation and the Special Case of Insects” (Bangkok, October 26, 2016) and had the chance to learn the latest news from the EU commission experts in charge of reviewing the approval of insects as food in the EU. And I found out that: – ONCE […]
AFFIA (Asean Food and Feed Insects Association): the first meeting
We talked with Massimo Reverberi, founder of Bugsolutely and one of the promoters of the newborn AFFIA (Asean Food and Feed Insects Association), to get an impression on the work of the first Meeting held in Bangkok. “We had a difficult project start-up, because in Thailand it didn’t take off. So, also to “increase the […]
