(I posted most of the article. Link at bottom)
Food producers in the European Union will be allowed to use cricket powder in flour-based products when a new statute takes effect on Tuesday. The European Food Safety Authority found that mass-market consumption of partially defatted house cricket powder is "safe under the proposed conditions" of use levels, following a review launched three years ago. The company that submitted the original application for authorization, Cricket One, states the insects are "nutritionally more efficient" than livestock and serve as a more reliable "source of alternative protein."
The regulation also mentioned "limited published evidence on food allergy related to insects in general" and linked Acheta domesticus, the house cricket, to several "anaphylaxis events."
Because the evidence on allergic reactions triggered by cricket powder is "inconclusive," the European Commission decided that "no specific labelling requirements" were needed in the EU list of authorized novel foods "[u]ntil the data generated by the research is assessed by the Authority."
People who are allergic to shellfish, the medical center asserts, "may develop an allergy to crickets" because the species share many of the same proteins. Those who suffer from an allergy to cockroaches "may react to crickets," as well.
for those who are allergic, they pose a serious threat,"
"When ingested, crickets can cause anaphylaxis and other serious reactions."
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Are these KOSHER crickets? Are they HALAL? NO, they aren't.
With the exception of certain grasshoppers, insects are not kosher. In fact, before Jews eat lettuce or other produce known to be infested with bugs, they check it carefully to be sure that it is bug free. Insects, especially in flour and other grains, are not kosher for consumption.
In the Muslim faith (as a general Islamic rule), insects are considered as haram things that you are not allowed to eat them. There are some differing opinions depending which branch of Islam and what part of the world you go, but with very few exceptions eating insects is considered unclean and disgusting and is banned.
Exactly who is supposed to eat this "cricket flour"?
Rules for the but not thy. Honestly we probably don’t know everything that’s in the flour, sugar etc we buy. They knew what they were doing when they started shipping canned and boxed food. Slowly they took out the small and important jobs that processed flour, meat etc. All in the name of progress. Another brainwashing tactic.