QPS qualifications

Examples of QPS status related qualifications:     • Absence of acquired genes conferring resistance to clinically relevant antimicrobials (generic qualification for all bacterial TUs)     • Absence of antimycotic resistance should (for yeasts to be used as viable organisms in the food or feed chains)      • for production purposes only, which implies the absence of viable cells of the production organism in the final product and can also be applied to food and feed products based on microbial biomass     • Absence of toxigenic potential (for all Bacillus spp. with QPS status)