Pet Food 12
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 […]
Italian BSF
Interview with Giacomo Zeni, founder of Bugslife Tell us how you guys met the BSF and how you got the idea to use them for the bioconversion Both Caterina Luppa (the co-founder) and I studied at the University of Wageningen (The Netherlands). Here we came into contact with the concept of bio-conversion through the breeding […]
What about the market in Asia?
A short talk with Massimo Reverberi, founder of Bugsolutely (Thailand) and Plento (Singapore) Ciao Massimo, it’s been a while we don’t chat about how things are going on there, in Thailand. What about the edible insects market development? Not much of a development, unfortunately. North America and Australia seem totally flat, and Europe is still […]
Webinar on insects farming
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Edible insects in Croatia
Interview with Aleksandar Gavrilović, founder of Insektarij Hi Aleksandar, tell us how you got involved in the edible insects business As the market of live insects in Croatia was dependent on imports, and the offer was reduced to insects that cannot meet the standards for animal nutrition, we decided to start producing quality food. We […]
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 […]
Report from Agroinsecta
The use of insects as a possible solution to reduce food waste and, at the same time, encourage the production of new materials useful to man. It is one of the examples of circular economy illustrated at the “Agroinsecta” conference held in Tortona, a moment of reflection on the experiments currently underway in the world […]
