Retraction notice to “Biochemical characterization of a cold-adapted κ-carrageenase from Colwellia echini: A biotechnological tool for efficient preparation of carrageenan oligosaccharides” [Food Bioscience 56 (2023) 103170] (Food Bioscience (2023) 56, (S2212429223008210), (10.1016/j.fbio.2023.103170))

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors-in-Chief. The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in mSphere 5:e00792-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00792-19. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data and replicated experiments should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.