Annual report : 1996 / Food Advisory Committee, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
- Great Britain. Food Advisory Committee
- Date:
- 1996
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Credit: Annual report : 1996 / Food Advisory Committee, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![satisfactory safety assessment by the COT, it was agreed that there was no need to refer the matter to that Committee. However, the Committee has asked the Department of Trade and Industry's Consumer Safety Unit and the Health and Safety Executive to undertake a hazard evaluation of their potential flammability in use and will return to this matter once this advice has been received. Enzymes 24. Following the FAC’s acceptance of a case of need for hemicellulase in breadmaking, a number of submissions on individual hemicellulase enzyme preparations were considered by the relevant expert Committees. In 1995, the Committee endorsed the recommendations of the COT that four hemicellulase preparations from a) Aspergillus niger (Superzyme Alpha - Denmark Enzymes), b) Trichoderma longibrachiatum (Xylanase - Quest International), c) GM Aspergillus niger (Xylanase II - Quest International) and d) GM Bacillus subtilis (RH6000 - Rdhm GmBH) should be given temporary clearance pending the submission of further data to the COT. These data were subsequently examined by the COT and found to be satisfactory. As a result, all four preparations have now been given full approval and the companies concerned notified. Hemicellulase from Aspergillus niger (Grindamy] - Danisco Ingredients) 25. During 1996, the Committee was asked to consider a hemicellulase preparation from Danisco Ingredients. The Committee noted that the COT had recommended temporary clearance on safety grounds for this preparation, subject to the company answering certain points raised by that Committee. The FAC considered that sufficient information had been provided by the company to demonstrate that a suitable quality control system was in place to ensure the consistent manufacture of the product and that the proposed specification was suitable for this enzyme preparation. The Committee, therefore, recommended temporary clearance of this enzyme preparation pending the provision of the information requested by the COT.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31849295_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
