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Sustainability of alternative proteins
While facing climate change and natural resource scarcity, ensuring sufficient, nutritious, safe and affordable food to a fast growing world population with changing dietary habits becomes increasingly challenging. The protein supply is in this respect most critical. Integration of a variety of new or alternative protein sources from both terrestrial and aquatic origin into new […]
Entotrust: insects you can trust
Interview with Mauro Bianchi co-founder of Entotrust Tell us briefly the idea behind Entotrust It all started with our founders, international citizens and sustainability activists. They realized that transparency on food origin, quality and environmental care are must. Who is valuing conscious producers? There was a need for an independent organization to promote good practices. […]
Authorization for Lesser mealworms
Another great news for the industry! The company Proti-Farm has obtained the authorization for the production of Lesser mealworms flour (Alphitobius Diaperinus), so from today there is a new raw material on the market that can be used as a basis for developing products containing this extraordinary ingredient. What is interesting to read about can […]
Insects to feed the world Conference
The 4th Insects to Feed the World Conference will take place in Québec City, and online, from June 12 to 16, 2022. The Québec City Convention Centre located in a prime area surrounded by world‐class hotels and tourist attractions, including the historic district of Old Québec. Québec City is the only fortified city in North America […]
Tebrio: Europe is going big
Interview with Adriana Casillas, CEO at Tebrio Hi Adriana, tell us how you guys got involved in the edible insects world The idea came up at the end of 2012. Sabas de Diego, co-founder and CTO of Tebrio, and I had been thinking about starting our own company for some time. He worked in the […]
Robotics&Data by Co.Ro.Sect
Interview with Maja Zikic, Communications Manager of CoRoSect Tell us briefly about Corosect project CoRoSect is a three-year project funded under Horizon 2020, developing a novel cognitive robotic system for digitalized and networked (automated) insect farms. It will enable up-scaling and optimizing five pilot insect production facilities. The basic solution is setting up dynamic work cells, […]