BS EN 17399:2020,Algae and algae products – Terms and definitions.
This document has been prepared by the experts of CEN/TC 454 ‘Algae and algae products’.
The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) was requested by the European Commission (EC) to draft European standards or European standardization deliverables to support the implementationof Article 3 of Directive 2009/28/EC for algae and algae-based products or intermediates.
This document has been developed with the aim to cover the horizontal definitions for algae and algae-based products or intermediates. Hence, other terms and definitions are given in the other standards developed by CEN/TC 454 “Algae and algae products”.
For food, feed and non-food, non-feed applications additional definitions may exist in other product specific standards.
BS EN 17399:2020 defines the terms related to functions, products, and properties of algae and algae products. In order to better pack the methodologies, algae are regarded as a functional group of organisms consisting of microalgae, macroalgae, cyanobacteria and Labyrinthulomycetes.