| ACNFP |
Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes |
| ADME |
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion |
| AOAC |
Association of Official Analytical Chemists |
| CAS |
Chemical Abstracts Service |
| CFU |
Colony forming unit |
| DNA |
Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| EFSA |
European Food Safety Authority |
| EFSA NDA |
EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens |
| EC |
European Commission |
| EU |
European Union |
| EU |
Endotoxin unit |
| FDA |
Food and Drug Administration |
| FCC |
Food Chemicals Codex |
| FSA |
Food Standards Agency |
| FSS |
Food Standards Scotland |
| FSAI |
Food Safety Authority of Ireland |
| FT-IR |
Fourier transform infrared |
| GB |
Great Britain |
| GMM |
Genetically modified microorganism |
| GMO |
Genetically modified organism |
| GMP |
Good Manufacturing Practice |
| GRAS |
Generally Recognized As Safe |
| HPLC |
High-performance liquid chromatography |
| HPLC-RID |
High-performance liquid chromatography - refractive index detector |
| HACCP |
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point |
| ICP-MS |
Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry |
| ICUMSA |
International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis |
| IUPAC |
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry |
| NCBI |
National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| NDA |
EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies |
| nptII |
Neomycin phosphotransferase II |
| Ppm |
Parts per million |
| USP |
US Pharmacopeia |
| UV |
Ultraviolet |