Food safety, efficiency and consistent quality! Does this sound familiar?

Well, it does to most salami manufacturers. Most of today’s manufacturers are facing serious challenges as they constantly strive to develop safe and stable products, optimize raw material and manufacturing costs, and provide consumers with appealing products with the right taste, texture and color.

Meat cultures from Chr. Hansen have a long track record of delivering on these aspects and Bactoflavor® Flora Italia is no different. Actually, the extensive scanning of series of strains identified a strain combination that was better than most of the meat cultures presently offered to the meat industry.

Bactoflavor® Flora Italia is characterized by:

• Rapid acidification for a safe production and optimal microbiological quality
• No compromise on color and aroma thanks to the very active and pH resistant Staphylococci strains
• Robustness that securing repeatability,regardless of the raw material quality
• A new L. sakei strain meeting the consumer demands for sweeter and non-spicy flavor notes, which are so typical of the smooth Italian products

Now Chr. Hansen also launches SafePro® Flora Italia LC to provide an extra food safety barrier to minimize the risk of Listeria monocytogenes growth.

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The global food industry is experiencing strong demand for safe, healthy, tasty and natural products with fewer additives – but also demands for excellent shelf life and sustainable production/distribution ensuring that food does not go to waste in the process.

What if you, as a producer, could extend shelf life and keep your dairy products fresh longer? In an all-natural way?

You can! Through Bioprotection – the art of using natural microbial food cultures to inhibit unwanted contaminants to prevent food spoilage and enhance food safety.

Chr. Hansen has successful bioprotective cultures on the market as a solution, which is based on ancient principles in food production: Fermentation. Referred to as FreshQ^®, they are natural food cultures selected especially to protect dairy products.

Attacks on several fronts

In short, bioprotective cultures work by a combination of mechanisms that attack harmful microorganisms in the dairy product. Such attacks may include:

* ”Eating their food”: Good and bad bacteria compete for the same nutrients that are naturally available in the yogurt

* Outnumbering them in the fierce competition for space

* Attacking them with natural metabolites that are produced during the normal fermentation process

* ”Sending signals” in their cell-to-cell communication that affect or prevent other species from spreading.

This means that good bacteria are nature’s way of keeping our food safe and fresh – for a long time.

Or in short: ”Keep it Great!”

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Research on the human microbiome has exploded in recent years revealing it to be of major importance for human health and disease, creating opportunities for development of next generation probiotics. That is why Chr. Hansen is proud to announce that we have now expanded our world class strain library of potential microbiome modulating strains.

“As part of its Nature’s No. 1 strategy Chr. Hansen has a strategic focus on the human microbiome. We can announce that we are making significant progress in this area. From over 1000 recently screened strains from the human microbiome, we have identified a subset of 100 that can be developed for a broad array of health indications associated with gastrointestinal, immune and metabolic health,” explains Johan van Hylckama Vlieg, VP Microbiome and Human Health Innovation.

Adding a well-documented collection of novel strains from microbiome species, such as Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and Eubacterium hallii that are widely regarded as primary candidates for next generation probiotics is a major milestone.

These strains will be used both for Chr. Hansen’s internal innovation efforts, and made available to external partners and customers looking to accelerate development of next generation probiotics.

Solving safety and industrialization challenges

Developing microbiome strains as next generation probiotics for Food, Supplement, Infant and Pharma applications, presents unique challenges. Many of the relevant species have no history of commercialization. They were until recently described as difficult to cultivate and require radically new techniques for cultivation and production.

The strains in the Chr. Hansen strain collection have passed rigorous safety assessments and are amendable for production and formulation into products in an industrial setting.

“Our safety assessment includes screening for absence of antibiotic resistance and virulence factors. We also looked for their ability to grow in industrial media and sensitivity to oxygen. And we also screened for the ability of strains to impact the immune system,” explains Gemma Henderson, Senior Scientist.

Academic partnerships

The work has been carried out in partnership between Chr. Hansen and three academic institutes – Gut Health, The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen; Host-Microbe Interactomics, Wageningen University and Research; and Medical Microbiology, UMCG, University of Groningen.

“Now we have a shortlisted selection of strains that we believe will be of major interest to innovators in the microbiome space, who are looking to develop next generation of probiotics and live biotherapeutics. It is our goal to help our customers and partners move these new documented strains from the lab to the clinic,” concludes Gemma.

Microbiome Discovery & Development Congress

At the Microbiome Discovery & Development Congress in Berlin novel strategies in microbiome research, the challenges of commercializing the microbiome and the latest therapeutic trends have been discussed.

Providing more insights into the approach taken to create Chr. Hansen’s expanded strain library, Johan presented a keynote lecture entitled Mining human gut microbial strain collections for next generation probiotics.

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Bioprotection is a natural way to protect against spoilage and harmful contamination in food. This not only helps you to keep your products fresh and safe, it also helps you to build and protect your brand!

FreshQ® cultures are natural food cultures selected especially to protect dairy products. FreshQ® helps to prevent spoilage, extends shelf life and protects the goodness of your fresh dairy and cheese products – even after it has been opened.

Reduce scrap
FreshQ® helps control yeast and mold contamination enabling increased consistency in quality, lowering the amount of retained and scrapped production batches

Meet consumer demand
FreshQ® enables great consistent quality while meeting consumer demand for natural and healthier food with less artificial ingredients.

The cultures come in several versions specifically targeting fresh dairy and cheese applications.

For more information about the products from this category, you can contact the representatives of Chr. Hansen in Bulgaria:

eng. Ivaylo Tonev, dkivt@chr-hansen.com  

eng. Dejan Ristov, dkdri@chr-hansen.com    

or us:

office@admix.bg, tel.: +359 2 938 51 05   

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Today’s consumers want more stable products and maximum food safety and at the same time a short list of ingredients without chemicals. In response to customer’s needs Chr. Hansen has developed the SafePro® cultures range – bioprotective starter cultures.

SafePro® is a range of cultures specifically selected and developed to provide increased food safety through a positive flora of lactic acid bacteria.

How does Safepro® work?

SafePro® cultures are added at concentrations much higher than the level of spoilage bacteria or of pathogens like Listeria monocytogenes. e.g. more than 1,000,000 times. Research has shown that these high numbers of safe and specially selected bacteria will prevent harmful bacteria like L. monocytogenes from multiplying and in many cases they will die off/decline in numbers.

Benefits of using Safepro®:

• Natural ingredient
• Minimizes risk of pathogens and increase food safety
• maintain color stability
• better quality and taste, may even extend the shelf life
• easy to use, control of the production process

Applications:

• Fermented products
• Fillet „Elena“
• Prevention against pores in ham
• Meat and meat preparations
• Sliced and packaged products

For more information about products in this category you can contact Chr. Hansen’s representative in Bulgaria:

eng. Dejan Ristov, dkdri@chr-hansen.com    

or us:

office@admix.bg, tel.: +359 2 938 51 05   

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Bioprotection is a natural way to inhibit microbial contaminants (yeast, mold and bacteria). Use wine bioprotection for your wine production.

This biocontrol – wine bioprotection not only helps you to prevent flavor defects, it also helps you to build and protect your brand!

• Bioprotection is the art of using natural microbial food cultures to inhibit unwanted contaminants – preventing food spoilage or enhancing food safety.
• Fermentation by food cultures has been known from ancient times as a natural way of preserving food.
• We use our superior knowledge of food microbiology to identify and select the best of the good bacteria to be used for bioprotection.
• Bioprotection enhances the effectiveness of a good sanitation program but is never an alternative to good cleaning and hygienic design of the production

Viniflora® cultures are natural food cultures selected especially to control fermentation processes preserving the varietal character of the grapes. Viniflora® helps to prevent the growth of undesirable flora and protects the flavor potential of the wine during its maturation. 

Viniflora® cultures can benefit you in three distinct ways:

• Keep the label clean with no added SO₂ – or else minimize its use

If you improve quality and consistency the natural way, you can keep your label clean. Use Viniflora® to make sure your wines are appreciated by as many people as possible, reducing the use of SO₂ in your wine.

• Take control

Use Viniflora® bioprotective cultures for wine protection to make sure there is no deviation in the process and to keep your wine character, from vintage to vintage.

• Improve your bottom line

Use Viniflora® bioprotective cultures for wine protection to help increase your profitability by getting the best out of the grapes.

For more information about the products from this category, you can contact the representatives of Chr. Hansen in Bulgaria:

eng. Dejan Ristov, dkdri@chr-hansen.com    

or us:

office@admix.bg, tel.: +359 2 938 51 05   

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