[throwawaytwit9]

The MB40 strain appears to be this one:

>BIO-CAT, Inc. -- a Virginia-based biotech company specializing in breakthrough enzyme product development -- has announced a global partnership with Kerry, the Taste & Nutrition company and their BIO-CAT Microbials, LLC probiotic products division. Effective June 2021, Kerry will lead the sales, marketing, and distribution of BIO-CAT's proprietary probiotic strain, OPTI-BIOME MB40®.

>OPTI-BIOME MB40® (Bacillus subtilis ATCC122264) is a non-GMO, highly-stable probiotic strain that the company says is an ideal ingredient for a wide array of dietary supplements and other related uses.

Source: https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/bio-cat-announces-...

[graypegg]

… non-GMO? How do you manage that? Is a culture considered non-GMO as long as you’re just pipetting colonies around and hoping for the them to be stressed the right way to evolve something useful?

[kurthr]

Well, otherwise just about every plant and animal we use in agriculture would be GMO for the last 1000 years.

[bbojan]

Any organism we bred is genetically modified by definition. That's why "transgenic" is a much more accurate term that we should be using.

[menacingly]

I think this is a failure to recognize the distinction between having modified genetics, and having been genetically modified.

[ISL]

Yep.