An overview of the safety evaluation of the Thermomyces lanuginosus xylanase enzyme (SP 628) and the Aspergillus aculeatus xylanase enzyme (SP 578)

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 389-398

  Bergman, A ^a   Broadmeadow, A ^b  

^a NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^b HUNTINGDON LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspergillus oryzae; Safety; Toxicology; Xylanase

Indexed keywords

FOOD ADDITIVE; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; MALE; MUTAGEN TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING; WHEAT;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EYE; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; FUNGAL PROTEINS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MUTAGENESIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SKIN;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS ACULEATUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; CAVIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; THERMOMYCES LANUGINOSUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0030916613     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652039709374542     Document Type: Article

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