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Safety evaluation of fibermalt.
Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association - 1 Jul 2012
Dolan Laurie C, Gietl Eva, La Cognata Ursula, Landschütze Volker, Ann Marone Palma, Matulka Ray A
Abstract excerpt
Fibermalt is a new soluble fiber food ingredient produced with the use of an alternansucrase enzyme from Leuconostoc mesenteroides expressed in a non-pathogenic strain of Escherichia coli. Fibermalt is predominantly composed of indigestible maltose alternan oligosaccharides (≥ 80%). Fibermalt was non-mutagenic in a bacterial reverse mutation test. In a 13-week dietary rat study, fibermalt was administered at 0...
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