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InsectSpace Symposium
The symposium InsectSpace 2018 will focus on edible insects for human consumption. How can we overcome disgust and repulsion with insects? Researchers, food scientists, entrepreneurs and food designers will present interesting insights about why and how to use insects in our diet. Wageningen – October 10 Info and tickets here
Horizon Insects
Interview with Tiziana di Costanzo, co-founder of Horizon Insects How did you get involved with the edible insect world? All the way back in 1995, an old lady approached our taxi in Bangkok and offered us a little plastic bag full of beautiful emerald-green beetles. When she saw the puzzled expression on our faces, she […]
Novel food applications
In a recent article, Jonas House, an expert in food acceptance and edible insects, addressed the current industry’s state of the art in Europe. He mentioned that there are currently four species of edible insects that are most widely available on the market. Since the new Novel Food regulation that came in place on the […]
Insects feed from Portugal
Interview with Daniel Murta, Entogreen founder Tell us how you got involved in the insects world and how the project Entogreen started This project started in 2012, at first focusing on Tenebrio Molitor (TM) for food. At the time I was doing my Veterinary Medicine PhD and it was very difficult to have such a […]
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.
Edible insects: source of Vitamin D
Interview with Dr. Dennis Oonincx, researcher at the Animal Nutrition Group of the Wageningen University Our usual first question: how did you get interested in insects? I started keeping reptiles when I was a ten year old and hence came into contact with insects used as feed. In the years that followed I started to […]