Improving end-user trust in the quality of commercial probiotic products

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue MAR, 2019, Pages

  Jackson, Scott A ^a   Schoeni, Jean L ^b   Vegge, Christina ^c   Pane, Marco ^d   Stahl, Buffy ^e   Bradley, Michael ^f   Goldman, Virginia S ^g   Burguière, Pierre ^h   Atwater, John B ^g   Sanders, Mary Ellen ⁱ  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

^c CHR HANSEN A S   (Denmark)

^d Biolab Research Srl   (Italy)

^e DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^f Nutra Manufacturing   (United States)

^g UNITED STATES PHARMACOPEIA   (United States)

^h Advanced Microbial Analytics   (France)

ⁱ International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics   (United States)

Author keywords

Probiotic enumeration; Probiotic identity; Probiotic stability; Probiotics; Quality; Standards; Third party verification; USP

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; ESTERASE; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CERTIFICATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DIETARY COMPLIANCE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DOCUMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD STORAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME ANALYSIS; GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INFORMED CONSENT; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PACKAGING; PLATE COUNT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHELF LIFE; TAXONOMY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85066503120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00739     Document Type: Article

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