Abstract
Plant and animal materials are used as sources of high value fine chemical products. For example, 25% of prescribed drugs are extracted from higher plants. Some of the most commonly prescribed plant pharmaceuticals are listed in Table 7.1. Plants are also used as sources of raw material for natural colourants, flavours, fragrances and specific enzymes. Omega-3 fatty acids having high potential in nutritional and pharmaceutical applications may be recovered from fish oils. Examples of important high value animal by-products include the cheese-making enzyme rennet, insulin and heparin, which is used as a blood anticoagulant. Some important human products are derived by fractionation of human blood collected by blood banks. In this chapter, outline processes for the production of some of these products will be described.
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Ward, O.P. (1991). Purification of Fine Chemicals from Non-microbial Sources. In: Bioprocessing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3914-8_7
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