Uncovering a New Moral Dilemma of Economic Optimization in Biotechnological Processing.
The trend of emerging biorefineries is to process the harvest as efficiently as possible and without any waste. From the most valuable phytomass, refined medicines, enzymes, dyes and other special reactants are created. Functional foods, food ingredients, oils, alcohol, solvents, plastics, fillers a...
| Published in: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 1331 - 1339 |
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