Catering waste may transmit several animal diseases such as African or classical swine fever, foot and mouth disease or avian influenza, the official said, while catering waste has been identified as a possible or likely source of infection in several outbreaks of these diseases in the EU.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to the nature of the insects which are living in their feed and are contaminated with their feeding substrate, only feeding substrate already declared safe for farmed animals has been authorized,\u201d added the Commission official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n
Several scientific studies have found, however, that these risks can be avoided if food waste is treated properly before feeding it to insects. Such treatment can include fermentation<\/a>, heat treatment<\/a>, or drying to remove harmful pathogens that can be found in unprocessed food waste.<\/p>\n Lalander argues that regulatory barriers aren\u2019t the only challenge circular business models like the insect one are facing. Long-standing market expectations, shaped by cheap, linear production systems that overlook environmental costs, also pose a significant obstacle.<\/p>\n \u201cIn a circular business model you pay for every step of the production. But if you look at the world market predominantly it\u2019s a linear economy which means you take product and then you have a waste and that\u2019s it,\u201d Lalander said.<\/p>\n She points out that expecting insect feed to be as cheap as fishmeal and soy is unrealistic, noting that \u201cthe cost for using soy and fish meal comes in the environmental impact.\u201d<\/p>\n Cr\u00e9pieux ended his conversation with POLITICO on a grim note.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything sustainable always loses. It\u2019s always easier to take from nature, which is free,\u201d Cr\u00e9pieux said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catering waste may transmit several animal diseases such as African or classical swine fever, foot and mouth disease…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[4675,2813,6215,2266,35,728,2000,299,5187,6644,37846,55222,398,55223,36,7062,475,806,55224,27647,2441,7911,9899,4434,46,10780,2443,2444,2343,2663,3695,12339,12340,10781],"class_list":{"0":"post-124214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-biodiversity","9":"tag-carbon","10":"tag-cooperation","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-energy","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-farmers","18":"tag-feed","19":"tag-fish-farming-aquaculture","20":"tag-food-waste","21":"tag-footprint","22":"tag-france","23":"tag-grains","24":"tag-imports","25":"tag-industry","26":"tag-insect-farming","27":"tag-livestock","28":"tag-markets","29":"tag-meat","30":"tag-ngos","31":"tag-nutrition","32":"tag-policy","33":"tag-poultry","34":"tag-regulation","35":"tag-regulatory","36":"tag-research","37":"tag-sanctions","38":"tag-sustainability","39":"tag-waste","40":"tag-welfare","41":"tag-wheat"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114555035892600447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}