GB xxxx—xxxx National Food Safety Standard Procedures for Evaluating the Safety of Microbial Cultures for Food Use (Consultation Draft)

The new draft is proposed to be applicable to the safety evaluation of live microbial cultures (including bacteria, filamentous fungi, yeast, actinomycetes bacteria and single-celled algae) for food and/or food additive use. It stipulates the application scope, terms and definitions, basic materials needed for safety evaluation, evaluation method, the way to judge test results, and six annexes to explain the involved test and determination methods.