Food and Fermentation Industries

Overview of regulations and standards for microorganism strains in food industry of U. S. A

  • ZHAO Ting ,
  • YAO Su ,
  • GE Yuan-yuan ,
  • CHENG Chi
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Online published: 2014-04-25

Abstract

Food safety is a hot topic internationally and domestically,wherein the use of microorganisms in food industry is an important part of food safety. Based on the"Generally Recognized As Safe"list of U. S. Food and Drug Administration and "Microbial Food Culture Including Probiotics"in the USP-FCC appendix XV,this article introduces relevant laws and regulations of microorganisms used in food industry in order to provide some references for microorganism management in food industry in China.

Key words: food industry; MFCs; regulation; GRAS

Cite this article

ZHAO Ting , YAO Su , GE Yuan-yuan , CHENG Chi . Overview of regulations and standards for microorganism strains in food industry of U. S. A[J]. Food and Fermentation Industries, 2014 , 40(04) : 108 -113 . DOI: 10.13995/j.cnki.11-1802/ts.2014.04.028

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