Fancy eating mealworms? EU set to implement regulations for insect material to enter food chain

‘It is up to consumers to decide whether they want to eat insects or not’

New EU regulation will authorise the insect (in its dried yellow mealworm from) as a food. File Picture.

The EU Commission is getting set to implement a regulation that will allow the Union’s citizens to eat maggots.

The regulation will authorise the insect (in its dried yellow mealworm from) as a food and will be adopted by the Commission in the coming weeks.