Beta Hatch, a Seattle, Washington-based insect meal production company set up in 2015, has received backing from Cavallo Ventures, the venture capital arm of US agribusiness company, Wilbur-Ellis.
The producer was asked to improve its use of Current Good Manufacturing Practices along with pest and safety controls after the FDA inspected one of its milk-based powder manufacturing facilities.
Identifying sustainable feed ingredients for the European feed manufacturing sector is a priority for Netherlands based feed sector orientated research and education center, the Feed Design Lab.
Three quarters of EU-wide consumers polled would be “comfortable” eating livestock fed on insect protein, says the organization behind the survey - the €3m EU funds backed insect to feed research initiative, PROteINSECT.
IPIFF says EFSA conclusions pave the way for regulatory changes
EFSA has recommended further research to better assess the microbiological and chemical risks arising from the use of insects as food and feed, given the “uncertainties" identified in its long awaited safety assessment released today.
Insect derived protein meal has a similar amino acid profile to fishmeal and can be used in broiler diets with no effect on weight gain or FCR, found a UK research project.
Insect meals could potentially replace between 25 and 100% of the soymeal or fishmeal in animal feeds, according to a new meta-study that has been accepted for publication in Animal Feed Science and Technology.
EFSA experts say they need more information before they can go ahead with an assessment of the risks arising from the production and consumption of insects as feed and food.
Logic and legislative frameworks often don’t go hand in hand, says an edible insect expert and academic behind a recent conference looking at the potential of insects as feed and the bottlenecks preventing their exploitation as a protein source.
Insects in animal feed could soon become a reality if regulators, industry and researchers can combine their common interests to push this alternative protein source, claims a Dutch academic.
