Primary exposure assessment for workers involved in insect /cricket breeding
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The Flying Food initiative creates employment and access to affordable proteins by setting up a new, inclusive value chain of crickets for human consumption in Africa. Over the last 5 years, the Flying Food project successfully established rearing, processing and retailing of crickets in Kenya and Uganda through an international public private partnership led by the Dutch innovation institute TNO. The Flying Food consortium includes 4 Dutch partners: Protifarm Ltd, New Generation Nutrition Ltd, Wageningen Food and Biobased Research and TNO. Currently 450 smallholder farmers, including 80+ women, actively rear crickets, with 200 additional farmers preparing to start. Two middle-scale companies have been established with the combined potential to deliver 50 tons of crickets per annum. Three processing companies dry, grind and package the crickets and deliver them to a total of 10 market outlets as snacks or powder. Fresh crickets are used in cricket samosas and as powder in fortified porridge and cookies. At full capacity, the existing supply chain could deliver 5.000.000 servings per annum. Because the demand outpaces supply, the Flying Food initiative has the ambition to scale up in existing countries and also to eight other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
TNO Identifier
880059
Publisher
TNO
Collation
20 p.
Place of publication
Utrecht