Two-year count down for insect novel food approval
“As soon as the new regulation enters into force, producers of insects for food consumption that intend to sell their products on the EU market shall submit an authorisation dossier to the European Commission,” the organisation said in a statement. This week the much debated new EU novel food regulation was passed into EU law. It comes into force 20 days after publication in the Official Journal of the EU and will be applicable two years later. The regulation placed insects firmly within its scope – confirming that insects are unauthorised novel food ingredients within Europe if they were not consumed before 1997 in the EU. This gives companies already marketing insects for human use on the EU market two years to submit a dossier for authorisation.
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