Nutrition and Food Chemistry

Industrial biotechnology in food industry

Industrial biotechnology is one of the most hopeful new approaches to pollution prevention, resource conservation, and cost reduction. Recently many advances in food industry characterize great role of food biotechnology. GM plants and animals are accustomed enhance taste, shell life, nutrition and quality of food. On the other needle GM yeast and Bacteria are used to produce enzymes for the sake of food industry. These GM foods are formed by using biotechnological techniques specifically genetic engineering. These techniques can be used to remove hunger from poor people of third world specially Africa. Besides positive aspects, there are some concerns.