Watch out for the labeling requirements declaring acheta domesticus.
Food containing admixtures can be any baked goods, potato products, vegetarian meat products, soup powder, whey powder, chocolate products, nuts, granola bars, beer-like beverages...
From the Official Journal of the European Union
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2023/5 of 3 January 2023
authorising the placing on the market of Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder
as a novel food and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470
(6) On 23 March 2022, the Authority adopted its scientific opinion on the ‘Safety of partially defatted whole Acheta
domesticus (house cricket) powder as a novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283’ (9) in accordance with
Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.
(7) In its scientific opinion, the Authority concluded that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder is
safe under the proposed conditions of use and use levels. Therefore, that scientific opinion gives sufficient grounds
to establish that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder when used in multigrain bread and rolls,
crackers and breadsticks, cereal bars, dry pre-mixes for baked products, biscuits, dry stuffed and non-stuffed pasta-
based products, sauces, processed potato products, legume- and vegetable- based dishes, pizza, pasta-based
products, whey powder, meat analogues, soups and soup concentrates or powders, maize flour-based snacks, beer-
like beverages, chocolate confectionary, nuts and oilseeds, snacks other than chips, and meat preparations, intended
for the general population, fulfils the conditions for its placing on the market in accordance with Article 12(1) of Regulation EU.
(8) On the basis of limited published evidence on food allergy related to insects in general, which equivocally linked the
consumption of Acheta domesticus to a number of anaphylaxis events and, on the basis of evidence demonstrating
that Acheta domesticus contains a number of potentially allergenic proteins, the Authority concluded in the opinion
that consumption of this novel food may trigger sensitisation to Acheta domesticus proteins. The Authority
recommended carrying out further research on the allergenicity of Acheta domesticus.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 3 January 2023.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
Bon appétit!
Food containing admixtures can be any baked goods, potato products, vegetarian meat products, soup powder, whey powder, chocolate products, nuts, granola bars, beer-like beverages...
From the Official Journal of the European Union
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2023/5 of 3 January 2023
authorising the placing on the market of Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder
as a novel food and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470
(6) On 23 March 2022, the Authority adopted its scientific opinion on the ‘Safety of partially defatted whole Acheta
domesticus (house cricket) powder as a novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283’ (9) in accordance with
Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.
(7) In its scientific opinion, the Authority concluded that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder is
safe under the proposed conditions of use and use levels. Therefore, that scientific opinion gives sufficient grounds
to establish that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder when used in multigrain bread and rolls,
crackers and breadsticks, cereal bars, dry pre-mixes for baked products, biscuits, dry stuffed and non-stuffed pasta-
based products, sauces, processed potato products, legume- and vegetable- based dishes, pizza, pasta-based
products, whey powder, meat analogues, soups and soup concentrates or powders, maize flour-based snacks, beer-
like beverages, chocolate confectionary, nuts and oilseeds, snacks other than chips, and meat preparations, intended
for the general population, fulfils the conditions for its placing on the market in accordance with Article 12(1) of Regulation EU.
(8) On the basis of limited published evidence on food allergy related to insects in general, which equivocally linked the
consumption of Acheta domesticus to a number of anaphylaxis events and, on the basis of evidence demonstrating
that Acheta domesticus contains a number of potentially allergenic proteins, the Authority concluded in the opinion
that consumption of this novel food may trigger sensitisation to Acheta domesticus proteins. The Authority
recommended carrying out further research on the allergenicity of Acheta domesticus.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 3 January 2023.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
Bon appétit!