Journal Title：Journal Of Insects As Food And Feed

The Journal of Insects as Food and Feed covers edible insects from harvesting in the wild through to industrial scale production. It publishes contributions to understanding the ecology and biology of edible insects and the factors that determine their abundance, the importance of food insects in people’s livelihoods, the value of ethno-entomological knowledge, and the role of technology transfer to assist people to utilise traditional knowledge to improve the value of insect foods in their lives. The journal aims to cover the whole chain of insect collecting or rearing to marketing edible insect products, including the development of sustainable technology, such as automation processes at affordable costs, detection, identification and mitigating of microbial contaminants, development of protocols for quality control, processing methodologies and how they affect digestibility and nutritional composition of insects, and the potential of insects to transform low value organic wastes into high protein products. At the end of the edible insect food or feed chain, marketing issues, consumer acceptance, regulation and legislation pose new research challenges. Food safety and legislation are intimately related. Consumer attitude is strongly dependent on the perceived safety. Microbial safety, toxicity due to chemical contaminants, and allergies are important issues in safety of insects as food and feed. Innovative contributions that address the multitude of aspects relevant for the utilisation of insects in increasing food and feed quality, safety and security are welcomed.

《昆蟲作為食物和飼料》雜志涵蓋了從野生采集到工業規模生產的食用昆蟲。它發表的文章旨在了解食用昆蟲的生態學和生物學以及決定其豐度的因素、食用昆蟲在人們生計中的重要性、民族昆蟲學知識的價值以及技術轉讓在幫助人們利用傳統知識提高昆蟲食品在生活中的價值方面的作用。該雜志旨在涵蓋從昆蟲采集或飼養到食用昆蟲產品營銷的整個鏈條，包括可持續技術的開發，例如以可承受的成本實現自動化過程、微生物污染物的檢測、識別和緩解、質量控制協議的制定、加工方法及其如何影響昆蟲的消化率和營養成分，以及昆蟲將低價值有機廢物轉化為高蛋白產品的潛力。在食用昆蟲食品或飼料鏈的末端，營銷問題、消費者接受度、監管和立法帶來了新的研究挑戰。食品安全和立法密切相關。消費者的態度在很大程度上取決于感知到的安全性。微生物安全性、化學污染物引起的毒性和過敏是昆蟲作為食品和飼料安全性的重要問題。歡迎提出創新性貢獻，解決與利用昆蟲提高食品和飼料質量、安全性和保障相關的眾多方面。

Journal Of Insects As Food And Feed創刊于2015年，由Wageningen Academic Publishers出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Insect Science全領域，此刊是中等級別的SCI期刊，所以過審相對來講不是特別難，但是該刊專業認可度不錯，仍然是一本值得選擇的SCI期刊 。平均審稿速度 ，影響因子指數4.7，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預警名單，廣大學者值得一試。