Dominique Turck, Torsten Bohn, Jacqueline Castenmiller, Stefaan De Henauw, Karen Ildico Hirsch-Ernst, Alexandre Maciuk, Inge Mangelsdorf, Harry J McArdle, Androniki Naska, Carmen Pelaez, Kristina Pentieva, Alfonso Siani, Frank Thies, Sophia Tsabouri, Marco Vinceti, Margarita Aguilera-Gómez, Francesco Cubadda, Thomas Frenzel, Marina Heinonen, Rosangela Marchelli, Monika Neuhäuser-Berthold, Morten Poulsen, Miguel Prieto Maradona, Alexandros Siskos, Josef Rudolf Schlatter, Henk van Loveren, Alejandra Muñoz González, Annamaria Rossi, Ermolaos Ververis, Helle Katrine Knutsen
Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens (NDA) was asked to deliver an opinion on an ethanolic extract of the dried biomass of the microalga Phaeodactylum tricornutum as a novel food (NF) pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283. The NF is an ethanolic extract of the dried biomass of the microalga P. tricornutum diluted in a medium-chain triglyceride oil carrier, with standardised fucoxanthin and tocopherol content. The main component of the NF is fat (78% on average), followed by crude protein (10% on average)...
July 2023: EFSA journal