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Environmental Applications of Chitosan and Its Derivatives

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 233

Part of the book series: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology ((RECT,volume 233))

Abstract

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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Soon Kong Yong would like to thank the University of South Australia for the UniSA President Scholarship award and Universiti Teknologi MARA for the UiTM Staff Scholarship award. Manoj Shrivastava acknowledges the Australian Government’s Endeavour Research Fellowship award for conducting this work.

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  1. Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095, Australia

    Soon Kong Yong, Manoj Shrivastava, Prashant Srivastava & Nanthi Bolan

  2. Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450, Shah Alam, Malaysia

    Soon Kong Yong

  3. Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400085, India

    Manoj Shrivastava

  4. Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture, Nuclear Research Laboratory, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India

    Manoj Shrivastava

  5. Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095, Australia

    Prashant Srivastava & Nanthi Bolan

  6. Chemical Safety Division, Department of Agro-Food Safety, National Academy of Agricultural Science, 166, Nongsaengmyeong-ro, Iseo-myeon, Wanju-gun, Jeollabuk-do, 565-851, Republic of Korea

    Anitha Kunhikrishnan

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Yong, S.K., Shrivastava, M., Srivastava, P., Kunhikrishnan, A., Bolan, N. (2015). Environmental Applications of Chitosan and Its Derivatives. In: Whitacre, D. (eds) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 233. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 233. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10479-9_1

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