EFFCA publications & news

EFFCA co-sign Joint Stakeholder statement on Promoting sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity through open exchange of Digital Sequence Information (22 June 2018)

Please find attached the EFFCA statement on the use of food cultures in organic food products.

EFFCA position on the German EGGenTDurchfG (EC Genetic Engineering Implementation act) concerning the Classification of Food Culture preparations.

Provision of information relating to allergenic substances which are present in food culture preparations

EFFCA publishes positon on Traditional use of the protective properties of food cultures

Please see attached EFFCA's Statement on Definition and Labelling of Food Cultures.

Industry guidelines of quality control for Microbial Food Cultures used in Meat Fermentation

Food fermentations: Microorganisms with technological beneficial use article ias recently been published in International Journal of Food Microbiology.

In Summer 2011, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has completed the evaluation of all health claims based on generally accepted scientific evidence (so-called article 13.1 claims).

In 2010 EFFCA hosted, together with two other stakeholders, a workshop on probiotics. The workshop and efforts to see EU authorities seek to clarify the benefits of probiotics.