Safety evaluation of the food enzyme chitinase from Streptomyces violaceoruber (strain pChi)

Abstract The food enzyme, a chitinase (EC 3.2.1.14), is produced with the genetically modified Streptomyces violaceoruber strain pChi by Nagase. No information was provided regarding the presence of antimicrobial resistance genes in the production strain, other than that used in the genetic modifica...

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Main Authors: EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP), Vittorio Silano, José Manuel Barat Baviera, Claudia Bolognesi, Beat Johannes Brüschweiler, Pier Sandro Cocconcelli, Riccardo Crebelli, David Michael Gott, Konrad Grob, Evgenia Lampi, Alicja Mortensen, Gilles Rivière, Inger‐Lise Steffensen, Christina Tlustos, Henk Van Loveren, Laurence Vernis, Holger Zorn, Boet Glandorf, Lieve Herman, Jaime Aguilera, Yi Liu, Andrew Chesson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-07-01
Series:EFSA Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5767