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EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) ; Scientific Opinion on the safety and efficacy of Bactocell (Pediococcus acidilactici) as a feed additive for use in water for drinking for weaned piglets, pigs for fattening, laying hens and chickens for fattening. EFSA Journal 2012;10(7):2776. [1 pp.] doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2012.2776.
Panel members: Gabriele Aquilina, Georges Bories, Andrew Chesson, Pier Sandro Cocconcelli, Joop de Knecht, Noël Albert Dierick, Mikolaj Antoni Gralak, Jürgen Gropp, Ingrid Halle, Christer Hogstrand, the late Reinhard Kroker, Lubomir Leng, Secundino López Puente, Anne‐Katrine Lundebye Haldorsen, Alberto Mantovani, Giovanna Martelli, Miklós Mézes, Derek Renshaw, Maria Saarela, Kristen Sejrsen and Johannes Westendorf.
Correspondence: feedap@efsa.europa.eu
Acknowledgement: The Panel wishes to thank the members of the Working Group on Microorganisms, including Guido Rychen, for the preparatory work on this scientific opinion.
Adoption date: 12 June 2012
Published date: 24 July 2012
Question number: EFSA‐Q‐2012‐00253
On request from: European Commission
Amended: 18 Dec 2020
References
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