Cooking an edible insect burger. Watch the verdict of this family on trying one of Horizon bug burger recipe for BBC Panorama on Climate Change. Insects are an alternative protein source which produces lower greenhouse gas emissions than meat and they also taste delicious.Which burger will come on top ? The traditional veggie burger, a Read More
SBS Dateline Episodes – the Rise of Extreme Vegan Activists? Reflections on one of the SBS Dateline episodes, plus how the program paid us a visit to explore edible insects as a sustainable protein alternative. Episode Summary The episode examines how vegan activism has intensified in tone and tactics, tracing a shift from awareness-raising to
The slapdash consultation on edible insects, launched by the Food Standards Agency on the 13th July 2022, is full of ambiguities and mistakes. Far from bringing clarity, it will plunge the UK edible insect sector into further chaos and generate another regulatory mess. We are making our reply to the consultation public, and encourage everyone
Please support our quest to save the Edible Insect industry in Great Britain. Note – this consultation is now closed. We explore the resulting disastrous consequences for the U.K. edible insect industry in our 2025 post. Having declared edible insects illegal in Great Britain after Brexit (31st Dec 2020), the Food Standards Agency has only
Today we submitted an Edible insects as Novel Food FOI request to the FSA. The assessment of Novel Food was a function previously carried out at a EU level. Since the end of the Brexit transition period this has become the responsibility of the FSA/FSS, in accordance with current legislation. In 2018 the Plenary of
The “Edible Insects as Novel Food” saga, began in the European Parliament in 2015. This led to the categorization of edible insects as Novel food, and subsequently, to the 5 year oligopoly of a few large companies over the entire sector. This was achieved through the exploitation of data protection provisions within the regulation. Anyone
We bring you edible insects news from the UK. What the EU Commission asked for: In 2015 the EU Commission put forward a proposal to speed up the authorization of novel foods, including edible insects: “a centralised authorisation process (where applications are submitted to the European Commission instead of Member States’ authorities, and EFSA carries
When we asked these questions to the FSA the first time round, we received very poor replies. So we raised a formal complaint and the replies have now been rectified as per below. There is still some ambiguity, but please make of it what you wish. It is interesting that insects legally marketed in the
*** please note – this article refers to the position of the FSA and FSA board between 1st Jan 2021 and July 2022. In July 2022, after the BBC set out to expose the scandal on BBC News, the FSA finally admitted the mistake. It then launched a slapdash consultation that does nothing to address
The legal status of edible insects in the UK has changed as a result of Brexit. Last year, on the 23rd January 2020 the Food Standards Agency’s Novel Food Safety team notified us and other food operators, of the following: “Several edible insects are currently going through the authorisation process in the EU and as these were