Sustainable Management of Keratin Waste Biomass: Applications and Future Perspectives

Keratin is a durable, fibrous protein which is mainly present in higher vertebrates (mammals, birds and reptiles) and humans epithelial cells. Food industry especially the meat market, slaughter house and wool industry produces million of tons of keratin containing biomass. These industries are cons...

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Main Authors: Swati Sharma, Arun Gupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2016-01-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132016000100701&lng=en&tlng=en