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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 receives a number of parcels con...
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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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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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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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03.09.2020

Biosafe is now a member of EuropaBio

We are glad to announce that we have been accepted as an associate member of EuropaBio, Europe’s largest and most influential biotech industry organiz...
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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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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. The initiation to amend th...
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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 experience with DNA isolation ...
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