Den 27 oktober meddelade Livsmedelsverket att även Sverige (efter en EU-dom) kommer att tillhöra de länder som får ta del av övergångsreglerna i väntan på att den europeiska livsmedelssäkerhetsmyndigheten EFSA genomför sina prövningar. I praktiken innebär det att det kommer att importeras produkter från länder
Den första oktober kom domen i EU-domstolen (C-526/19) som konstaterade att den tidigare versionen av ”Novel Food Act” (regelverket som reglerar nyintroducerad mat) från 1997 inte gäller för hela insekter. Därmed fick EU-länder som Nederländerna, Storbritannien, Danmark och Finland rätt, som gjort denna tolkning och
LoopToday it is the 23rd of October – World Edible Insect Day, and to celebrate Bugburger launches a revamped newsletter. Instead of just sending out the latest post to my subscribers, I about once a month make a newsletter from scratch including interesting stories from
A month ago I added a new category to my list of edible insect products: The food subscription box. It is the guys I interviewed in 2018, Leo and Aaron that have taken their company BUG (Better Universal Grub) one step further and transformed their
In countries where eating insects is an old custom and part of the culinary tradition you often eat them whole. Snacking them, stir frying them, grilling them on skewers or popping them into soups or stews. Sometimes they are grinded, used as flavouring and sometimes
Since the 2012 FAO report a lot of Westerners have opened their minds to eating insects. Media keeps reporting the story: Eating insects is the food of the future. Often, but not always, mentioning that eating insects already is a tradition in a lot of
Soon it’s been seven years since FAO released what “entopreneurs” often refer to as “The report”. 200 pages that opened many westerner’s minds and made us aware that it makes sense farming and eating insects. About one year later (in 2014) I started this blog
A couple of weeks before Christmas I received an early Christmas gift from England. Francesco Majno from Crické food had reached out and wondered if I wanted to try out their Crickét crackers. Crackers with different flavours containing 14-17 percent cricket powder from ground up