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- Title
Taxonomic identity of the Bacillus licheniformis strains used to produce food enzymes evaluated in published EFSA opinions.
- Authors
Barat Baviera, José Manuel; Bolognesi, Claudia; Chesson, Andrew; Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro; Crebelli, Riccardo; Gott, David Michael; Grob, Konrad; Lambré, Claude; Lampi, Evgenia; Mengelers, Marcel; Mortensen, Alicja; Rivière, Gilles; Steffensen, Inger‐Lise; Tlustos, Christina; Van Loveren, Henk; Vernis, Laurence; Zorn, Holger; Herman, Lieve; Aguilera, Jaime; Gomes, Ana
- Abstract
Bacillus paralicheniformis, a species known to produce the antimicrobial bacitracin, could be misidentified as Bacillus licheniformis, depending on the identification method used. For this reason, the European Commission requested EFSA to review the taxonomic identification of formerly assessed B. licheniformis production strains. Following this request, EFSA retrieved the raw data from 27 technical dossiers submitted and found that the taxonomic identification was established by 16S rRNA gene analyses for 15 strains and by whole genome sequence analysis for 12 strains. As a conclusion, only these 12 strains could be unambiguously identified as B. licheniformis.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority; BACILLUS licheniformis; EUROPEAN Commission; WHOLE genome sequencing; BACILLUS (Bacteria); SEQUENCE analysis; ENZYMES
- Publication
EFSA Journal, 2024, Vol 22, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1831-4732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8770