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10.02.2021

What’s in store for 2021

In the spirit of transparency, we wanted to shine a light on this year and what is happening at Biosafe too.

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16.12.2020

Behind the scene: Laboratory processing at Biosafe

The Biosafe Ltd. laboratory operates from our headquarters in Kuopio, in the lake district of Finland. The laboratory...

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19.08.2020

DNA Isolation for Difficult Strains: No Problem!

Whole genome sequencing (WGS), the gold standard for microbial characterization, needs DNA isolation. Biosafe has solid...

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03.08.2020

Lab Power: How fungi and anaerobes are driving the future of Food Industry

For food industry players, securing timely food & feed product approval is of no small concern. Hitting a certain window for...

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20.03.2020

Safer products make a better world – Biosafe

The story of Biosafe began with the international Biosafe Paper project, which aimed to develop safety testing for paper and...

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28.02.2020

How to successfully navigate in the midst of EFSA requirements?

You have discovered a new microorganism that you plan to use as a feed additive or in any food product. And you have...

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07.09.2019

Amendments to EU General Food Law are coming. What will change?

On Friday, 6 September 2019, a Regulation amending the General Food Law from 2002 was published in the EU Official Journal....

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09.03.2021

Transparency Regulation in the EU 2021 — How to Comply

Regulation (EU) 2019/1381 of the European Parliament and Council on the transparency and sustainability of the European Union risk assessment in the f...
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05.02.2019

QPS, a useful concept in the safety evaluation of microorganisms

…and I do not mean Queries Per Second, which is a common measure of the amount of search traffic an information retrieval system, such as a search eng...
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23.03.2021

In vitro efficacy in feed additives — How to test for it

To register a feed additive in the European Union, its efficacy should be demonstrated in trials which follow common feed manufacturing, animal husban...
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18.12.2020

Registering a microorganism in the EU as a feed additive or food microbe

Registering a new microorganism as a feed additive or food microbe (as novel food) may be difficult to start with if one is not familiar with the EU l...
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10.02.2021

What’s in store for 2021

In the spirit of transparency, we wanted to shine a light on this year and what is happening at Biosafe too.
Read more  
16.12.2020

Behind the scene: Laboratory processing at Biosafe

The Biosafe Ltd. laboratory operates from our headquarters in Kuopio, in the lake district of Finland. The laboratory receives a number of parcels con...
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09.04.2019

EFSA updated guidance: environmental risk assessment of feed additives

On 5 April 2019, the EFSA FEEDAP Panel published updated guidance on environmental risk assessment (ERA) after examining the 133 comments from stakeho...
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26.02.2020

Pauliina Halimaa appointed as Managing Director of Biosafe starting 1.3.2020

Pauliina Halimaa, PhD, has been appointed as Managing Director of Biosafe Oy as of March 1, 2020. Pauliina has been with Biosafe for over three years,...
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