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ArticleEFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority2021

Update of the list of QPS-recommended biological agents intentionally added to food or feed as notified to EFSA 13: suitability of taxonomic units notified to EFSA until September 2020.

EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ), Kostas Koutsoumanis, Ana Allende, Avelino Alvarez-Ordóñez, Declan Bolton, Sara Bover-Cid, Marianne Chemaly, Robert Davies, Alessandra De Cesare, Friederike Hilbert and 18 more

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Article in EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

28 authors.

EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ)
Kostas Koutsoumanis
Ana Allende
Avelino Alvarez-Ordóñez
Declan Bolton
Sara Bover-Cid
Marianne Chemaly
Robert Davies
Alessandra De Cesare
Friederike Hilbert
Roland Lindqvist
Maarten Nauta
Luisa Peixe
Giuseppe Ru
Marion Simmons
Panagiotis Skandamis
Elisabetta Suffredini
Pier Sandro Cocconcelli
Pablo Salvador Fernández Escámez
Miguel Prieto Maradona
Amparo Querol
Lolke Sijtsma
Juan Evaristo Suarez
Ingvar Sundh
Just Vlak
Fulvio Barizzone
Michaela Hempen
Lieve Herman

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The qualified presumption of safety (QPS) approach was developed to provide a regularly updated generic pre-evaluation of the safety of biological agents, intended for addition to food or feed, to support the work of EFSA's Scientific Panels. It is based on an assessment of published data for each agent, with respect to its taxonomic identity, the body of knowledge, safety concerns and antimicrobial resistance. Safety concerns identified for a taxonomic unit (TU) are, where possible, confirmed at strain or product level, and reflected by 'qualifications'. In the period covered by this statement, no new information was found that would change the status of previously recommended QPS TUs. Of the 36 microorganisms notified to EFSA between April and September 2020, 33 were excluded; seven filamentous fungi (including

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Bacillus circulansbacteriaMethylorubrum extorquensMycobacterium aurumQPSsafetyyeast

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PMID33537066
PMCPMC7842631

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