Taxonomic identity of the strains used to produce food enzymes evaluated in published EFSA opinions.

, a species known to produce the antimicrobial bacitracin, could be misidentified as , depending on the identification method used. For this reason, the European Commission requested EFSA to review the taxonomic identification of formerly assessed production strains. Following this request, EFSA retrieved the raw data from 27 technical dossiers submitted and found that the taxonomic identification was established by 16S rRNA gene analyses for 15 strains and by whole genome sequence analysis for 12 strains. As a conclusion, only these 12 strains could be unambiguously identified as .