We might be on the brink of a phage paradigm shift in the European Union. This was the view of various experts during an online webinar on 11 July organised by PhageEU, a coalition of stakeholders representing phages in industry, the scientific community and civil society.
A feed additive based on phage technology could be authorised by the European Commission in the near future, they agreed, adding that this would be a template for the development of ground-breaking phage products in poultry and other food-producing animals.
The webinar was an opportunity to discuss technical challenges to designing bacteriophage products, the regulatory hurdles in Europe for this new product category as well as to analyse the recent political debate in the EU institutions and the future outlook.
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