Is it legal to eat insects in the UK? Are edible insects illegal in the UK in 2025? Edible insects regulations in the UK 2025 The edible insects legal status in the UK hangs in the balance. Uncertainty persists in 2025, despite some relief for the edible insect industry under the Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Read More
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Is it legal to eat insects in the UK? Are edible insects illegal in the UK in 2025? For the latest information on the edible insect legal status in 2025, please refer to our 2025 blog Legality of edible insects in the U.K. – 2024 update We’ve now received the official word straight from the
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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
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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
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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
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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
The Edible Insects UK and EU boo-boo Read Post »
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
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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
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*** 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
Edible insects UK – the Transitional measures Read Post »
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
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