18 May 2018

The symposium “Edible Insects: The Value Chain” was held on 21 and 22 March 2018 in Ede, The Netherlands and organized by Wageningen University in collaboration with NGN and Venik. The symposium was dedicated to 10 years of insects research in the Netherlands. During the symposium, several themes were discussed such as: insect breeding, processing of insects, but also the use of insects in Food and Feed. The opinion of the consumer was very important for this symposium, both in European territory and beyond.

17 May 2018

The European Commission wants to get rid of disposable plastics, according to a plan that will be presented on 23 May. 

10 May 2018

This is shown by the annual monitoring of the National Entrepreneurial Netherlands (RVO.nl). Both industry and the Government invest greatly on renewable raw materials.

5 May 2018

AB InBev has developed a nutrient-rich breakfast drink based on dry grain residues from brewing beer. So far, that draff mainly used by farmers as feed for their cattle. The breakfast drink is already on sale in the US and might also be launched in Europe. 

4 May 2018

ILVO has teamed up with the Flemish Government  and wrote a report about "Monitoring food residual streams and  food waist streams in the Flemish horticulture".

1 May 2018

The European Commission has drawn up an action plan in 2015 to stimulate the development of the future circular economy, partly by recovering foodstuffs that are no longer intended for human consumption for various reasons, as raw materials for animal feed.

25 April 2018

Wild salmon eat fish and shrimps, but soon the first salmon grown with larvae of black soldier flies will lay on your plate. The flies are the workhorses of the Turnhout company Millibeter, who grows larvae with residual streams such as potato peels and beet pulp. The black soldier fly plays an important role in the shift to a more sustainable fishing industry. The insects serve as an alternative to fish meal and soybean meal with which fish such as salmon, trout and Pike-perch in aquaculture are grown. "Ecologically it is already, now economically it has to be more attractive", says Johan Jacobs, founder of Millibeter.

24 April 2018

According to the Belgian Federal Agency Economy about 4.5 million tonnes of vegetable waste is produced annually. This is a great potential source for the cultivation of the black soldier fly. This can easily convert residual waste of arable land, catering, supermarket and convert to useful manure, animal proteins.