Reference number : GC-2017-Q4-00902, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Kelly, Carly (Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology)|Kelly, Carly (Collège Loyalist d’arts appliqués et de technologie), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Engage Plus Grants for colleges, program name french : Subvention d'engagement partenarial Plus pour les collèges, program purpose english : Entomo Farms is a local company who specialize in insect protein production. Their insect protein powder, which is specifically and exclusively processed for human consumption, is unique, innovative, extremely nutritious and an environmentally sustainable model of food production. Entomo Farms is motivated to be recognized as a world leader in providing protein alternatives in the form of the finest organic and world-class insect proteins with great tasting products and recipes. Additionally, Entomo Farms is striving to enable, encourage and educate more people on the relevance and socio-political impact of their protein carbon footprint. With the population becoming more conscious about how their food is prepared and endeavoring towards more organic and GMO free products, Entomo Farms offers a gluten-free, protein alternative through its cricket powder that has twice the amount of protein than beef, more calcium than milk, includes all nine essential amino acids, and has more iron than spinach. All of this is accomplished by using a fraction of the farming essentials that typical beef, pork, and chicken farming require. There is tremendous interest from commercial retailers to sell this product, however, Entomo Farms must first satisfy several International and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) guidelines. Therefore, for the past 12 months, Loyalist College has been collaborating with Entomo Farms to address the 'Food Labeling for Industry: Date Markings and Storage Instructions', from the CFIA guidelines. This project resulted in providing Entomo Farms with a "best before" date of at least 12 months for their cricket flour product. However, as a result of the product not showing any significant signs of deterioration over the 12 months, a shelf life of 18- 24 months is expected. Thus, another year of analyses is recommended in order to gather further data to provide an accurate stability of the product and allow Entomo Farms the ability to distribute their cricket flour nationally and internationally._x000D_
_x000D_, program purpose french : Entomo Farms is a local company who specialize in insect protein production. Their insect protein powder, which is specifically and exclusively processed for human consumption, is unique, innovative, extremely nutritious and an environmentally sustainable model of food production. Entomo Farms is motivated to be recognized as a world leader in providing protein alternatives in the form of the finest organic and world-class insect proteins with great tasting products and recipes. Additionally, Entomo Farms is striving to enable, encourage and educate more people on the relevance and socio-political impact of their protein carbon footprint. With the population becoming more conscious about how their food is prepared and endeavoring towards more organic and GMO free products, Entomo Farms offers a gluten-free, protein alternative through its cricket powder that has twice the amount of protein than beef, more calcium than milk, includes all nine essential amino acids, and has more iron than spinach. All of this is accomplished by using a fraction of the farming essentials that typical beef, pork, and chicken farming require. There is tremendous interest from commercial retailers to sell this product, however, Entomo Farms must first satisfy several International and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) guidelines. Therefore, for the past 12 months, Loyalist College has been collaborating with Entomo Farms to address the 'Food Labeling for Industry: Date Markings and Storage Instructions', from the CFIA guidelines. This project resulted in providing Entomo Farms with a "best before" date of at least 12 months for their cricket flour product. However, as a result of the product not showing any significant signs of deterioration over the 12 months, a shelf life of 18- 24 months is expected. Thus, another year of analyses is recommended in order to gather further data to provide an accurate stability of the product and allow Entomo Farms the ability to distribute their cricket flour nationally and internationally._x000D_
_x000D_, agreement title english : Extended trials to determine the shelf-life and optimal storage conditions of protein alternative cricket powder, agreement title french : Extended trials to determine the shelf-life and optimal storage conditions of protein alternative cricket powder, agreement number : CEGP2, agreement value : 1800.0, agreement start date : 2018-02-07, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada