Microbial food cultures - opinion of the Senate Commission on Food Safety (SKLM) of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 654-662

  Vogel, Rudi F ^a   Hammes, Walter P ^a   Habermeyer, Michael ^a   Engel, Karl Heinz ^a   Knorr, Dietrich ^a   Eisenbrand, Gerhard ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Food safety; Microbial food cultures; Probiotics; Protective cultures; Starter cultures

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FERMENTATION; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD POISONING; FOOD SAFETY; FUNGUS; GERMANY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGAL ASPECT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOGENICITY; STANDARD;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FERMENTATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; FUNGI; GERMANY; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PROBIOTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 79953311658     PISSN: 16134125     EISSN: 16134133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201100010     Document Type: Article

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