In two years, the European Commission has authorized the marketing of six food products made from larvae or locusts.
Beetles, caterpillars, ants or grasshoppers: will insects gradually colonize our plates? Last January, the European Commission authorized the placing on the market of partially defatted small house cricket powder, produced by the company Cricket One. A dish that Europeans will be able to enjoy, once incorporated into dry biscuits, cereal bars, sauces, pizzas or even chocolate candies. In two years, six types of food products made from molitor beetle larvae, house crickets or migratory locusts have been authorized in the EU, and files of this type are piling up on the desks of the European Food Safety (EFSA), responsible for assessing the possible risks to human health of these “novel foods”.
According to a law dating back to 1997, any food that has not been significantly consumed in the EU before that year is considered to be a…
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