Source: Meatingplace.com, March 22

The FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition has granted notification of GRAS for the use of Sel-Plex as a human food additive. Sel-Plex is a selenized yeast produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-3060.

“Based on the information provided by Alltech, as well as other information available to the FDA, the agency has no questions at this time regarding Alltech’s conclusion that high-selenium yeast is GRAS under the intended conditions of use,” stated Dr. Mitchell Cheeseman, acting director of the Office of Food Additive Safety at the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, in a notification letter sent to Alltech.

Sel-Plex is the only FDA reviewed form of organic selenium and was the first product of its kind to receive European Union (EU) authorization as a nutritional feed additive for use in all species diets under EU regulation 1750/2006. It is the only product with safety and toxicity data that has been FDA-reviewed and EU-approved.

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