Abstract
Following the European Commission No. 1332/2008 regulation and the consequent necessity of a scientific evaluation of food enzymes (FEs) for their approval for sale on the European Union market, many FE dossiers have been submitted to the European Commission and various documents currently co-exist. In order to centralize all relevant information in one structured location that is easily accessible to support enforcement laboratories and the competent authorities, we developed a web application, called Food Enzyme Database (FEDA). FEDA allows searching and collection of information originating from many different sources in one centralized portal. Queries can be performed using key information types, which include information on the producing company, production source (strain type, genetically modified microorganism status), type of enzyme protein and evaluation status with employed evaluation criteria. The database contains all current publicly available information. Centralizing all information coupled with intuitive searching functionality also allows the generation of general statistics regarding the current market situation. FEDA is open access and is freely available at the following location: https://feda.sciensano.be. Database URL : https://feda.sciensano.be
Highlights
To harmonize regulations and evaluations of food additives, flavorings and enzymes, the European Union (EU) has established a panel of regulations, namely European Commission (EC) Nos 1331/2008, 1332/2008, 1333/2008 and 1334/2008 [1,2,3,4]
An food enzymes (FEs) can be produced by different sources, by fermentation using microbial species or by extraction from plants or animals
A specific search looking for all enzyme preparations produced by genetically modified microorganism (GMM) and used for dairy processing resulted in 14 records, for which the intended level of use can be accessed on each detailed record page
Summary
To harmonize regulations and evaluations of food additives, flavorings and enzymes, the European Union (EU) has established a panel of regulations, namely European Commission (EC) Nos 1331/2008, 1332/2008, 1333/2008 and 1334/2008 [1,2,3,4]. The data for the web application has been collected from various publicly available sources, such as the public parts of the submitted FE dossiers, the EFSA portals [16, 17], published scientific opinions, the NCBI databases (genomes and taxonomy), EC inventory and International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) nomenclature.
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