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Edible insects market in Europe
IPIFF recently released a very interesting factsheet about the edible insects market in Europe. Production, market and companies size, investments, consumers reached, maket share, forecasts and many more informations about the industry. Download the full document here: IPIFF-edible-insects-market-factsheet
Insects to Feed the World 2020
Dear colleagues, It is with great pleasure and pride that the new organizing committee invites you to attend the 3rd International Conference Insects to Feed the World 2020. The conference continues its journey across the continents and will be held this time in North America in the beautiful city of Québec from June 2-6 2020. […]
IPIFF: Farm-to-Fork strategy
Brussels, the 18th of February The International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed – IPIFF the Brussels-based umbrella organisation representing stakeholders active across the insect production value chains publishes today a ‘Position Paper‘ entitled ‘The Contribution of the European Insect Sector to Improving Sustainability from Farm to Fork’. As part of the ongoing discussions […]
Join AFFIA at VICTAM
“Insect Protein for Animal Feed: Functionalities and Nutritional Aspects” conference Date: Tuesday 24 March at 10:30 This session takes place during VICTAM and Animal Health and Nutrition Asia 2020 for which you can register here. Access to the exhibition is free after registration. For some conferences a fee will be charged. Filling out the registration […]
Sustainability of insects production
The European Commission is conducting a survey for the H2020 EU SUStainable INsect CHAIN (SUSINCHAIN) project on the environmental impact and economic viability of insect production. Your response would be a valuable contribution for this sustainability assessment and design of sustainable production model for insect companies. The results of the analysis will be public (and […]
A pic of the sector
Interview with Antoine Hubert, IPIFF President Many are wondering when the first Novel Food authorisations concerning edible insects for human consumption will be released. What’s the situation? Currently (mid December 2019) there are twenty-one applications submitted to the European Commission for authorisation for insects as novel food and five notifications for insects as a traditional […]
IPIFF guide on Novel food regulation
This briefing paper sets out the administrative steps to be followed by insect producers intending to submit an application for authorisation of an insect/ insect product as novel food within the European Union. It is intended to be used as a practical guide to the EU legislative texts that are applicable to their activities, namely […]
