Update of the list of QPS-recommended biological agents intentionally added to food or feed as notified to EFSA 9: Suitability of taxonomic units notified to EFSA until september 2018

EFSA Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Koutsoumanis, Kostas ^a   Allende, Ana ^a   Álvarez Ordóñz, Avelino ^a   Bolton, Declan ^a   Bover Cid, Sara ^a   Chemaly, Marianne ^a   Davies, Robert ^a   Hilbert, Friederike ^a   Lindqvist, Roland ^a   Nauta, Maarten ^a   Peixe, Luisa ^a   Ru, Giuseppe ^a   Simmons, Marion ^a   Skandamis, Panagiotis ^a   Suffredini, Elisabetta ^a   Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro ^a   Escámez, Pablo Salvador Fernández ^a   Maradona, Miguel Prieto ^a   Querol, Amparo ^a   Suarez, Juan Evaristo ^a   Sundh, Ingvar ^a   Vlak, Just ^a   Barizzone, Fulvio ^a   Correia, Sandra ^a   Herman, Lieve ^a   more..

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bacteria; Corynebacterium glutamicum; Komagataeibacter sucrofermentans; Mycobacterium setense; Pseudomonas fluorescens; QPS; Safety; Yeast

Indexed keywords

EID: 85063639323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18314732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5555     Document Type: Article

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