24 May 2022 --- A scientific assessment partially funded by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has examined the overall health impacts of replacing red meat with an edible insect species. The project entitled “Novel foods as red meat replacers – an insight using Risk Benefit Assessment methods (NovRBA)” - aimed to develop and test harmonized Risk Benefit Assessment (RBA) methods to estimate the overall health impact of replacing red meat with the novel food.