“…Other protein precipitating agents (Greenberg & Shipe, 1979) such as 12 M HCl (Enikeev, 2012;Khanal & Lucey, 2017) 5-sulfosalycilic acid (SSA) (Pintado, Pintado, & F. Malcata, 1999a;Pintado, Pintado, & Malcata, 1999b) or ammonium sulphate (Peng, Han, Liu, & Zhou, 2016), have also been successfully introduced. After the EPS precipitation, the last step of EPS purification generally includes the resuspension of resulting material in deionized water and its dialysis against water for 1 to 7d at 4°C to remove low-molecular-mass contaminating carbohydrates that may be present in the material, and finally the resulting EPS is lyophilized (Abid et al, 2018;Benit & Roslin, 2018;London et al, 2014). The amount and composition of the isolated EPS have been shown to vary with the type of adopted approach (Mende et al, 2016;Miao, 2015), and a systematic assessment of the most effective methods for removing media contaminants remains to be done (Nguyen et al, 2018).…”