Microorganisms (May 2017)

Regulatory and Safety Requirements for Food Cultures

  • Svend Laulund,
  • Anette Wind,
  • Patrick M. F. Derkx,
  • Véronique Zuliani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms5020028
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2
p. 28

Abstract

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The increased use of food cultures to ferment perishable raw materials has potentiated the need for regulations to assess and assure the safety of food cultures and their uses. These regulations differ from country to country, all aimed at assuring the safe use of food cultures which has to be guaranteed by the food culture supplier. Here we highlight national differences in regulations and review a list of methods and methodologies to assess the safety of food cultures at strain level, at production, and in the final product.

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