RoboRoach: control a living insects with your smartphone
The idea comes from Backyard Brains, with the goal to share electrophysiology issues and informations about how the human brain works. Reading the Ethics section of their site is suggested.
Livin Farms on Kickstarter
Livin Farms is on Kickstarter withe the project “Desktop hive for edible insects”. It’s possibile to make a preorder directly from their website.
EFSA’s Scientific Opinion on the risks of edible insects as food and feed
Interest is growing in the potential benefits of using insects in food and animal feed, but what would be the risks from production, processing and consumption of this alternative source of protein? EFSA has addressed this question with a risk profile that identifies the potential biological and chemical hazards as well as allergenicity and […]
FAO Edible Insects Stakeholder Directory
FAO has produced a very useful tool for promotion, information and possibility of cross-contact among subjects involved in edible insects industry. It’s a directory that contains references to those involved at various levels -private, institutional, academic, non-governmental, communication- in entomophagy world, in breeding insects or producing insects for livestock feeding. Very intuitive to use, you […]
