{"id":64263,"date":"2019-06-21T06:59:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biofuelsdigest.com%2Fbdigest%2F2019%2F06%2F13%2Fnew-astm-proposed-standard-for-classify-microorganisms-move-beyond-gmo-non-gmo%2F"},"modified":"2019-06-20T15:39:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:39:50","slug":"classifying-microbe-based-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/classifying-microbe-based-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Classifying Microbe-Based Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASTM International\u2019s industrial biotechnology committee (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astm.org\/COMMITTEE\/E62.htm\" target=\"_blank\">E62<\/a>) is developing a proposed standard\u00a0(soon to be published as E3214)\u00a0that will help classify microorganisms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe designation of microbe-based products as either genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or not is too simplistic,\u201d said ASTM International member Joseph McAuliffe, senior principal scientist at DuPont Industrial Biosciences. \u201cThis standard will give\u00a0customers of the biotechnology industry, the general public, and regulators more information on the composition and intended uses for a given product.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to McAuliffe, the proposed standard will help biotech industry customers compare product options while also helping regulators determine how to classify new types of microbial products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dSince microbe-based products are already well-established across many markets impacted by industrial biotechnology, this\u00a0standard supports a number of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/sdgs\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations Sustainable Development Goals,<\/a>\u201d\u00a0said ASTM International\u00a0industrial\u00a0biotechnology\u00a0chair William Armiger, president,\u00a0BioChemInsights.\u00a0\u201cIt will stimulate\u00a0practical solutions utilizing technology and knowledge that address the complex issues of environmental, economic, societal and ethical considerations necessary for implementing UN SDGs related to human health, hunger, energy, water, sustainable cities,\u00a0and climate\u00a0change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee welcomes participation in the development of the proposed standard. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astm.org\/MEMBERSHIP\/index.html?utm_source=mixed-source-marketing&amp;utm_medium=mixed-source-marketing&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=MKT-MEM-MemberRenewal\" target=\"_blank\">Become a member of ASTM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASTM International\u2019s industrial biotechnology committee (E62) is developing a proposed standard\u00a0(soon to be published as E3214)\u00a0that will help classify microorganisms. \u201cThe designation of microbe-based products as either genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or not is too simplistic,\u201d said ASTM International member Joseph McAuliffe, senior principal scientist at DuPont Industrial Biosciences. \u201cThis standard will give\u00a0customers of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5796,12620,11615],"supplier":[846],"class_list":["post-64263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biotechnology","tag-gmo","tag-microorganisms","supplier-american-society-for-testing-and-materials-astm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64263"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=64263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}