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Yea insects typically have a high amount of allergens to humans. It's why bioreactors for things like insulin, igb, etc avoid insects cells if they can.
by norwalkbear 4y ago
Yea insects typically have a high amount of allergens to humans.
It's why bioreactors for things like insulin, igb, etc avoid insects cells if they can.
- Dylan16807 4y agoYou want to go as low as possible for a medicine, but how common are allergies to the kind of breeds that make reasonable food? For comparison, it would be silly to say we shouldn't normalize eating peanuts because of the allergy risk.
- norwalkbear 4y agoAre you kidding? Insect cells used in bioreactors would be an order of magnitude safer than possible insect food ( medical grade is much much higher standard than food grade), and people still avoid it as much as possible . That should tell you "food grade" insects have enormous risk associated with them.
- Dylan16807 4y agoWell if I look at peanuts again, an order of magnitude safer would still be something to avoid very strongly in bioreactors. At this point I'll keep an eye out but insects are such a broad and mostly unexplored category that I'm not convinced there's an unavoidable and crippling allergen risk.