Novel Foods and Edible Insects in the European Union

- Introduction: Feeding the Future Sustainably-What Role for Novel Foods and Edible Insects?. - Part I Novel Foods: A Necessary Premise. - Novel Foods in the EU Integrated Administrative Space: An Institutional Perspective. - A Peculiar Category of Novel Foods: Traditional Foods Coming from Third Countries and the Regulatory Issues Involving Sustainability, Food Security, Food Safety, and the Free Circulation of Goods. - Food (In)Security: The Role of Novel Foods on Sustainability. - Why 'New' Foods Are Safe and How They Can Be Assessed. - Part II Edible Insects. - Legislative and Judicial Challenges on Insects for Human Consumption: From Member States to the EU, Passing Through the Court of Justice of the EU. - The Safety Assessment of Insects and Products Thereof As Novel Foods in the European Union. - Consumer Perceptions and Acceptance of Insects As Feed and Food: Current Findings and Future Outlook.

Giulia Formici currently is Research Fellow (RTD/A) in Public Comparative Law at the University of Milan La Statale, Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law. After completing her Ph.D. studies, she has been awarded a post-doc grant at the University of Parma, funded by Region Emilia-Romagna (Program "High Competencies"), based on a project, proposed by Professor Scaffardi, specifically focused on the regulatory issues related to Novel Foods and, in particular, to edible insects and cultured meat. She participated as a speaker in numerous conferences, talking about the legal challenges linked to Novel Foods, edible insects, traditional foods coming from Third Countries, cultured meat and food sustainability. She published various papers on Novel Foods exploring different perspectives and regulatory issues, and she has been recently awarded the "SIRD Younger Comparatists 2022" prize with a paper specifically addressing the strict link between right to food,cultural identity, sustainability, and food divide. She taught a specific module on Innovation in the Agri-Food Sector, as an integrative course of the European Union Agri-food Law course, held at the Bachelor Course in Food System: Sustainability, Management and Technologies, University of Parma (Faculty of Economics). She is also a member of the Coordinated Research Centre for Innovation, Well-being and Environment (CRC I-WE) of the University of Milan. Other research areas covered by Giulia's studies are data retention, fundamental rights and mass surveillance systems for security purposes, biometric data and digital welfare state.
Lucia Scaffardi is Full Professor in Public Comparative Law at the University of Parma, Department of Law, Politics and International Studies, where she teaches Public Comparative Law and Italian and Comparative Constitutional Law. Lucia's main research fields cover different areas, from DNA databases for investigative purposes to biometric