Edible insects: A food security solution or a food safety concern?

Animal Frontiers

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 25-30

  Belluco, Simone ^a,b   Losasso, Carmen ^a   Maggioletti, Michela ^c   Alonzi, Cristiana ^c   Ricci, Antonia ^a   Paoletti, Maurizio G ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allergy; Entomophagy; Food security; Novel food

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983166133     PISSN: 21606056     EISSN: 21606064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/af.2015-0016     Document Type: Article

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