InSAFE - Securing the Future of the UK's Insect Farming Industry

** 英国昆虫养殖业的增长目前受到以下因素的限制：**1。对包括昆虫蛋白在内的加工动物蛋白的使用的严格立法，严重限制了昆虫产品的市场。缺乏涉及在封闭的人工环境中高密度单一栽培条件下从事昆虫饲养的工作人员的职业健康的规程。食品安全和质量标准，以及与全球标准和零售商“供应守则”一致的昆虫饲养操作守则。这些壁垒 ** 目前并不存在于许可性原料 ** 中，但对这一新兴部门的发展和未来生存能力至关重要，这也限制了其他收入来源的发展，如昆虫副产品，因为这些壁垒也适用。此外，利用 ** 非许可性原料 ** 的昆虫饲养系统可以 ** 释放该行业的潜力 **，实现昆虫养殖在替代蛋白质行业中具有全球意义所需的生产规模。InSAFE** 将告知制定适用于各种原料和生产规模的幼虫饲养设施的议定书、业务守则和标准的可行性，包括集装箱单位、20吨和1，000吨昆虫/天单位。研究将为这些文件的制定提供可靠的数据。利兹大学的国家养猪中心与Entocycle合作，按照规范建造了一个集装箱式昆虫饲养单元，作为一种新型的示范设施，以不允许的饲料（如猪泥浆、污水污泥和鸡粪）饲养黑水虻（BSF）幼虫。**该项目的新奇源于：**1。使用非许可性原料1。探讨饲养昆虫的健康和安全因素，包括职业健康1。为符合食品安全标准的昆虫养殖场制定协议和操作规范。除了Entocycle的BSF饲养设置外，还将从该单位收集样本，用于允许的饲料，包括隔离的食物垃圾。我们的项目将分析细菌微生物组，病原体负荷，AMR基因的存在，以及昆虫生物转化前后允许和非允许原料的重金属含量，同时分析BSF幼虫和副产品，如粪便。

**Growth of the UK insect farming industry is currently curtailed by:**1. tight legislation on the use of processed animal proteins, including insect proteins, severely limiting the markets for insect products.1. a lack of protocols covering occupational health of staff involved in insect rearing under high-density monoculture conditions in enclosed artificial environments.1. Food Safety and Quality Standards, and Codes of Practice for insect rearing that align with global standards and retailers' 'Codes of Supply'. These **currently do not exist for permissive feedstocks** but are crucial to the development and future viability of this emerging sector.This is also limiting the development of additional revenue streams, such as insect by-products as these barriers also apply. Furthermore, insect rearing systems that utilise **non-permissive feedstocks** could **unlock the sectors potential** towards production scales that are required for insect farming to be of global significance within the alternative protein industry.**InSAFE** will inform the feasibility of developing protocols, codes of practice and standards appropriate for larvae rearing facilities spanning a range of feedstocks and production scales, including containerised units, 20 tonne and 1,000 tonne insects/day units. Research will provide robust data to underpin the development of these documents.The National Pig Centre at the University of Leeds is home to a containerised insect rearing unit built to specification in collaboration with Entocycle, serving as a novel demonstrator facility to rear black soldier fly (BSF) larvae on non-permissive feedstocks such as pig slurry, sewage sludge and chicken manure.**The project's novelty is derived from:**1. its use of non-permissive feedstocks1. exploring the health and safety elements of rearing insects, including occupational health1. developing protocols and code of practices for insect farms that comply with food safety standards.Samples will be collected from the unit, in addition to Entocycle's BSF rearing set-up for permissive feedstocks, including segregated food waste. Our project will analyse the bacterial microbiome, pathogen loads, presence of AMR genes, and heavy metal content of permissive and non-permissive feedstocks before and after insect bioconversion, alongside analysis of the BSF larvae and by-products such as frass.