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It's Official: European Food Will Now Contain Crickets
[RedState] If you’ve not yet consumed crickets, you may soon — particularly if you’re a partaker of European fare.The European Union is putting the “pow” in “powder.” It’s giving eaters an explosion of insect compliments of a pinch of arthropod. From now on, those overseas will be bound to eat ground cousins of grasshoppers. Following a three-year review, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 went into effect Tuesday. It allows food producers to put cricket powder in flour-based products. In its scientific opinion, the [European Food Safety Authority] concluded that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder is safe under the proposed conditions of use and use levels. … [T]hat scientific opinion gives sufficient grounds to establish that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder when used in [an assortment of food] fulfills the conditions for its placing on the market… Cricket powder will be permitted in the following: Multigrain Bread and Rolls The original application to start bugging people’s plates came courtesy of Cricket One, a company promoting “classic protein for a modern world.” Posted by: DarthVader 2023-01-26 |
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