About food recalls and Next Millennium Farms’ best practices

A recent post on The Future of Edible Insects posits whether the burgeoning Entomophagy industry could fall victim to food recalls. From the beginning Next Millennium Farms has put incredible effort into following and/or setting industry best practices when it comes to farming, processing and packaging our products.

Through many conversations with local, provincial and federal government agencies we have learned that there are few if any regulations specifically governing the production (farming, processing, packaging, shipping) of insects as human food. While we could have looked at this as way to quickly bring our products to market we instead saw this shortfall as a way to help shape the regulations that will undoubtedly come.

As such we have always farmed our insects in state of the art facilities, and will soon be adding a new 5000+ square foot cricket and mealworm farming facility built to an even higher standard. We also humanely euthanize our insects, and have a government inspected kitchen where our whole bugs and insect flour are processed and packaged into industry standard food grade packaging.

Obviously Next Millennium Farms can’t say there will never be a product recall involving our insects, but we can say loudly and proudly that we are, and always will be, working hard to adhere to the standards set for products destined for human consumption.