Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Feeding the Future Sustainably-What Role for Novel Foods and Edible Insects? -- 1 Food Systems Under Pressure: The Need to Find Safe and Sustainable Solutions to Multiple Challenges -- 2 The Structure of This Volume: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Novel Foods and Edible Insects -- 2.1 Novel Foods -- 2.2 Edible Insects -- 3 Conclusions: Prompting a Fruitful Debate on the `Food for the Future ́-- Part I: Novel Foods: A Necessary Premise -- Novel Foods in the EU Integrated Administrative Space: An Institutional Perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Regulating Novel Foods in the Internal Market -- 2.1 The Definition of Novel Foods -- 2.2 The Objectives of the Regulation of Novel Foods -- 3 The Procedure for the Authorisation of Novel Foods -- 3.1 The Historical Development of the Authorisation Procedure -- 3.2 The Procedure for the Authorisation of Novel Foods: The Role of the Commission and EFSA -- 3.3 The Procedure for the Authorisation of Novel Foods: The Role of Comitology -- 3.4 The Union List of Authorised Novel Foods and Data Protection -- 4 The Centralisation of the Procedure and the Role of the Member States -- 4.1 Novel Food Governance in the European Space of Integrated Administration -- 4.2 The (Lack of) Tensions Within the Comitology System -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- A Peculiar Category of Novel Foods: Traditional Foods Coming from Third Countries and the Regulatory Issues Involving Sustaina... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Preliminary Analysis of Two Key Concepts: Sustainable Development and Food (In)Security -- 3 How Novel Foods Regulation (EC) 258/97 Affected the Marketing of Traditional Foods Coming from Third Countries: Criticalitie.

4 The EU Legislatorś Recognition of the Specificities of Traditional Foods Coming from Third Countries: Significant Improveme... -- References -- Food (In)Security: The Role of Novel Foods on Sustainability -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Food (In)Security and Food Production (Un)Sustainability -- 3 Novel Foods: What They Are and How They Can Support Food Security and Sustainable Food Production -- 3.1 Novel Healthy and Nutritious Foods from Sustainable Sources: Insects and Microalgae -- 3.2 Novel Healthy Food Ingredients and Supplements from Marginal and Exotic Biomasses -- 3.3 Novel Healthy Food Ingredients and Supplements from Food Byproducts -- 3.4 Novel Ingredients for Healthier Baby Foods Also Extended to Foods for Adults -- 3.5 Novel UV-Treated Foods for Tackling Vitamin D Deficiency -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Why `New ́Foods Are Safe and How They Can Be Assessed -- 1 The Safety Assessment Process in the European Union -- 2 Safety Assessment Requirements for Novel Foods -- 3 Assessing the Allergenic Potential: The Big Constraint -- 4 New Methodologies to Improve Risk Assessment -- 5 Safety Assessment of Insects As Novel Food -- 6 Is an Approved Novel Food Really Safe? -- References -- Part II: Edible Insects -- Legislative and Judicial Challenges on Insects for Human Consumption: From Member States to the EU, Passing Through the Court ... -- 1 Marketing Edible Insects in the EU: Sustainability, Food Security, Food Safety and Regulatory Issues -- 2 The First Attempt to Regulate Insects-as-Food and the Doubts Regarding the Scope of Application of 1997 Novel Foods Legislat... -- 3 Shadows from the Past: Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 Between Clarifications and Persistent Doubts -- 4 A Relevant Decision Influencing the Application of 2015 Regulationś Transitional Measures: The CJEU Provides Clarifications.

5 Legislative Intervention Still Needed: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives -- References -- The Safety Assessment of Insects and Products Thereof As Novel Foods in the European Union -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of the Risk Assessment Process of Insects and Products Thereof As Novel Foods in the EU -- 2.1 Authorization Procedure for Novel Foods in the EU and Principles of the Risk Assessment Process -- 2.2 Main Challenges During the Safety Assessment of Insects -- Production Process -- Compositional Characterisation and Specifications of Insects and Products Thereof -- Proposed Uses, Use Levels -- Nutritional Information -- Toxicological Information -- Allergenicity -- 3 Conclusions and Future Prospects -- References -- Consumer Perceptions and Acceptance of Insects As Feed and Food: Current Findings and Future Outlook -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Market of Insects As Food and Feed -- 2.1 EU Market of Insects As Food -- 2.2 EU Market of Insects As Feed -- 3 Consumer Acceptance of Edible Insects As Feed -- 3.1 Insects As Feed, Making Their Way -- 3.2 Emerging Consumer Studies on Insects As Feed -- 4 Consumer Acceptance of Edible Insects As Food -- 4.1 A `Mini-Compilation ́-- 4.2 New Instruments to Measure Consumer Perceptions and Acceptance -- 5 Discussion and Conclusions -- 5.1 Legislation, Information, and Temptation -- 5.2 Final Considerations -- References -- Correction to: The Safety Assessment of Insects and Products There of As Novel Foods in the European Union -- Correction to: Chapter 7 in: L. Scaffardi, G. Formici (eds.), Novel Foods and Edible Insects in the European Union, https://do.