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Fucibo: ready for the market
A chat with Davide Rossi, Fucibo co-founder Hi Davide, we met some time ago to talk about Fucibo, your project to produce insect-based food in Italy. Are there any news? The first big news is certainly Efsa’s scientific opinion on the use of mealworms as food for humans. Finally a fixed point from which there […]
Inef: italian insects
Interview with James Caon, INEF founder How did you start farming insects? I started raising food insects on an amateur level mainly to meet the dietary needs of my reptiles. In 2018 I decided to develop my hobby into a small business and opened my company, INEF, which stands for “Insect Novel Ecologic Food”. I […]
Alia Insect Farm
Interview with Carlotta Totaro Fila, Alia founder Hi Carlotta, tell us how you entered the world of edible insects I saw for the first time edible insects about 10 years ago. I heard about it in a R&D lab in the Netherlands – I was working at the time as a company nutritionist for a […]
Efsa: green light for mealworms
Today is a great day! Efsa released the first positive opinion on the safety of mealworms as human food. Read the full text here: Efsa opinion on Yellow Mealworms
FAO Guidance on sustainable insect farming
The FAO recently released a practical manual for farmers and inspectors, and this is a really good news for the industry. You can find the Guidance here; FAO_Guidance on sustainable crickets farming
Ilaria Marini joined our team
My name is Ilaria Marini, I’m twenty-six years old and I recently graduated with a master degree in Veterinary Biotechnology from the University of Milan. Thanks to a series of seminars about the use of insects as animal feed that I had the pleasure to attend during my studies, I developed a deep interest in […]
Note on Novel Food Regulation
Extract fom the IPIFF Information Note: “CJEU (Court of Justice of the European Union) clarifies ‘whole edible insects’ do not fall under the old novel foods Regulation: On those grounds, the Court (Third Chamber) hereby rules: Article 1(2)(e) of Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 1997 […]
