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More about Protix-Bühler joint venture
Protix is the leading insect proteins and ingredients company; producing and selling highest quality insect-based ingredients. It is at the forefront of defining the standards of product safety and quality and has been the first to establish multiple new markets and initiated and founded the IPIFF, the leading insect association. Protix currently produces in the […]
Protix announces the joint venture with Bühler Group
Uzwil, Switzerland/Dongen, Netherlands, January 16, 2017 As the global population grows, so does the necessity for alternative, sustainably-generated protein sources. Insects provide a natural and sustainable protein source that will contribute to closing the future protein gap. In order to address this potential, Bühler –the leading solution provider for the food and feed industry– and […]
Oils from insects: the research in Wageningen
The world of entomophagy isn’t just business, but research and development as well. And the main “shrine” of this research surely is the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands: here worked the main authors of the renowned dossier from FAO, where the ONU agency recommended the adoption of entomophagy to European and North American countries, and […]
Protix: ingredients market is picking up fast
Interview with Kees Aarts, founder and CEO of Protix Tell us shortly about how you get involved in the edible insects world and how the Protix project began When I was young I was already breeding insect and feeder animals for my reptiles and birds. I even did a ‘backyard safari’ several times to collect […]
EAT: Stockholm Food Forum 2016
EAT Stockholm Food Forum is taking place in Sweden on June 13th – 14th 2016, at the Clarion Hotel Sign. The third Forum brings together some of the world’s brightest people in the fields of science, politics, civil society to shift food systems towards greater sustainability, security, and equity within the boundaries of our planet. […]
Insects as animal feed: let’s understand more about
Interview with Emmy Koeleman, Editor at All About Feed Why is not actually possible to feed animals (pigs, livestock and poultry) with insects-based feed? At the moment, the current EU legislation doesn’t allow the use of insect meal in food producing animals. Producers of insect meal have to follow a set of EU rules and […]
