Yet i didnt see any of such means! Though it sounds intresting

See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19471983

Thanks Alder, There are many studies on lab. scale, but did not find any on commercial scale..!!!

as I know, commercial chitozan is made by chemical degradation without biologicals, since its cheaper that way

May be fungi would be helpfull!

See www.foodinnova.com/foodInnova/docu2/35.pdf

Thanks@ Pranav and Claudia..:)

This method has been widely studied at the lab bench and pilot scale. AIT in Bangkok as well as IRL in New Zealand have isolated good LAB cultures with both proteolytic activities and enough acid production to achieve effective protein removal and fairly effective demineralization of raw substrates. IRL was interested in licensing their process in times past.

Hi Mark, Can you please suggest me some references related to their work?? Thanx

As with many things that actually work and thus have commercial value, the exact nature of these processes are often rather proprietary. You may search Science Direct for Willem Stevens, however. He directed the Bioprocessing program at AIT for many years. While AIT never produced at commercial-scale, the spirit of their work was always practical rather than purely academic.

Most people who desire low-ash, low-protein chitin simply use hydroxides and HCl, but for some applications with less stringent purity demands, bioprocessing is an attractive alternative.

Yupp..Thanks

Thanks Devraj..!!

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