Paul Angel, head of the Directorate-General for Market Control and Surveillance and European Harmonization at the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC), asks consumers in a Facebook post whether products containing proteins derived from crickets, mealybug larvae, yellow meal and grasshoppers , approved by the European Commission, must be clearly labeled and sold only on specially designated shelves, News.ro reports.

In a Facebook post, Paul Angel referred to correct and complete information on the use in food products of certain ingredients approved by the European Commission as sources of proteins from: Acheta domesticus – house crickets, Alphitobitus diaperinus – mealybug larvae, Tenebrio molitor – yellow mealybug and Locusta migratoria – migratory locust.

He asked consumers if they believed that foods containing “novel food” proteins should be clearly labeled and sold only on shelves designated for that purpose.

“Should consumers be able to ‘distinguish and differentiate’ products containing insect proteins approved by the European Commission as ‘novel foods’ under the new rules?”, added Paul Angel.

Hungary’s Ministry of Agriculture will amend food labeling regulations to provide correct information to consumers so that products containing insect proteins can be distinguished and separated on store shelves, Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy announced on Wednesday via a press release quoted MTI.