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AOCS Phospholipid Division
Newsletter April 2007GRAS Approval for Enzyme Technology
from inform 18(2) p. 104Diversa Corporation based in San Diego, California, USA, announced on December 19 that its Purifine(TM) enzyme had obtained GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for edible oil applications. Earlier approval had been received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for nonfood applications, including the use of Purifine enzyme for increasing the efficiency of oilseed processing for biodiesel fuel production.
Use of the enzyme is claimed to facilitate a novel degumming process that increases oil yield and reduces low-value by-products by removal of the phospholipid component.
"The FDA GRAS approval has come earlier than anticipated and will allow us to accelerate the full commercial launch of Purifine enzyme," said Edward T. Shonsey, Diversa's Chief Executive Officer. "We now have the flexibility to initiate full-scale trials in oilseed plants in the U.S. that refine vegetable oil for either food or biofuel applications, or both, greatly increasing the number of plants that can potentially adopt our improved enzymatic degumming process."
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