Corrado Finardi, Lecturer in Food Sciences, University of Parma; Christophe Derrien, Coordinator, International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF). The authors wish to thank Luis González Vaqué (Fundación “Triptolemos”) for his comments on the first version of this article. We also found his study “¿Qué hay de “nuevo” en el Reglamento (UE) 2015/2283 relativo a los nuevos alimentos?” very useful (shortly to be published in the Revista de Derecho agrario y alimentario).