The German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, "BVerfG") has handed down a momentous decision for business operators selling food and feed within Germany:

There is now more legal certainty for ten insect species, the distribution of which is already permitted in some EU countries.

If the current novel food classification in the EU just depended on the name of a specific substance, the answer to this question would certainly be straightforward.

Pesticides in fruit, traces of antibiotics in milkpowder, splinters of glass in meat - few things are as likely to raise consumers' attention to such an extent as threats to their health...