Their outline :
- approval insect novel food (europa.eu) https://food.ec.europa.eu/safety/novel-food/authorisations/approval-insect-novel-food_en
referred to “publications” of their “studies”
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Safety of frozen and freeze‐dried formulations of the lesser mealworm (Alphitobius diaperinus larva) as a Novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 - - 2022 - EFSA Journal - Wiley Online Library https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7325
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Safety of partially defatted house cricket (Acheta domesticus) powder as a novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 - - 2022 - EFSA Journal - Wiley Online Library https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7258
The EU’s new regulation https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/58/oj
The EFSA didn’t do any proper testing, and say… we haven’t found any previous data so it’s probably safe …
Bunch of quacks if you ask me.
There’s already insects in food coloring ingredients. So if this freaked you out, don’t freak out. There’s bugs in your M&M’s
imo, a ‘coloring extract’ and ‘grinded mealworm (larva of Alphitobius diaperinus)’ are quite a different comparison.
Here’s a study on parasites in ‘novel food’ showing there are quite some… https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219303#sec006
