Environmental applications of chitosan and its derivatives
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2014
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Yong, S.K.
Shrivastava, M.
Srivastava, P.
Kunhikrishnan, A.
Bolan, N.
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Whitacre, D.M.
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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2014; 233:1-43
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Seafood processing waste is a potentially rich source of several useful products including chitin (Meanwell and Shama 2008), and has long been generated in large tonnages worldwide (Chang et al. 2007). Chitin is economical and is the second most abundant bio-waste material after cellulose (Shahidi et al. 1999). Annual worldwide chitin production from arthropods (e.g., crustaceans and insects), molluscs (e.g., squid and cuttlefish) and fungi is estimated at about 100 × 109 t (Tharanathan and Kittur 2003). A steady supply of chitinous waste materials from the seafood processing industry has been the major source of commercial products such as chitin and chitosan (Hayes 2012). The increasing consumption of krill oil and mushrooms has also been an additional source for commercial chitin (Nicol and Hosie 1993; Vetter 2007).
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