Guidance issued on bacteriophage preparation on RTE meat & poultry.

From: The Food Institute Report | Date: August 28, 2006 | Copyright information

In the Federal Register of August 18, 2006, FDA announced that it had approved the use of a bacteriophage preparation made from six individually purified phages to be used on RTE meat and poultry products as an antimicrobial agent against Listeria monocytogenes. The rule is in response to a food additive petition submitted in 2002 from Intralytix, Inc. Last week, FDA issued the following Question and Answer Gudiance on the topic.

1. What is a bacteriophage?

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