Danisco works against allergens
Determines to eliminate all food allergens and ingredients that may contain allergens from its range of antimicrobials and protective cultures.
03/03/06 Food allergy sufferers are dependent on accurate labelling of processed foods if they are to avoid specific allergens in their diets. Now international labelling laws have been introduced to make their lives easier and safer.
Danisco has responded to this new legislation by taking steps to help manufacturers avoid allergens in their products altogether.
Within food protection, the company has determined to eliminate all food allergens and ingredients that may contain allergens from its range of antimicrobials and protective cultures.
Most TEXEL® Meat Maturation Cultures and HOLDBAC™ Protective Meat Cultures are now produced without allergens.
The development of entirely non-dairy Nisaplin® Natural Antimicrobial has been achieved by replacing traditional foaming and scooping processes with modern, safer and more consistent micro-filtration and ultra-filtration technology at the Nisaplin® production plant.
In addition to enabling the full replacement of milk with sugar and non-allergenic protein sources, the new extraction process has optimised the plant’s fermentation and extraction capacity and made it generally more environmentally friendly.
To develop a complete range of allergen-free starter cultures for meat fermentation and protection purposes, Danisco established a development project targeting the TEXEL® Meat Culture and HOLDBAC™ Protective Culture ranges.
The project team has developed new strain manufacturing, formulation and downstream processes and validated the resulting products in situ. Customers have also been involved in qualifying the final products.
Work continues to optimise Danisco’s allergen-free food protection solutions and allow manufacturers to concentrate on what they are best at: the production of consistently appealing food and beverage products.
As every manufacturer knows, product recalls due to incorrect labelling are an expensive burden. Danisco is lightening the load.
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