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Microbial contamination of foods leads to food poisoning in consumers. The uncontrolled application of antibiotics in animal husbandry, which is the case for the developing countries in general, generates their global environment accumulation and the formation of antibiotic-resistant strains. This problem can also refer to food preservatives obtained by chemical synthesis. On the other hand, fermentation and pickling are traditional cooking methods in most countries to prevent microbial spoilage. The producing org...

Food biotechnology is one of the green and fast developing segment of the industry among the others dealing with renewable plant raw materials processing and new functional food production to improve human health in deteriorating environmental situation. Annually, the number of studies aimed at proving the prebiotic properties of certain substances or compositions is increased, which leads to a huge accumulation of scientific information. The divergence in techniques for prebiotic activity assessment cause the fac...

The growth in the value of functional nutrition for person?s life is due to a number of factors leading to poor health, such as unfavorable environmental conditions, urbanization of society, increased infectious load (bio-burden of pathogens) as a result contact with many people. Prebiotics are the most common food ingredients, along with probiotics used in functional foods. Since the second half of 1990, a huge amount of research has been carried out to prove the prebiotic properties of certain substances or comp...

Nowadays the great attention is paid to the cultivation of different mammalian cells. They can be used, for example, for vaccines, monoclonal antibodies or viruses production, in regenerative medicine, diagnostics, for clinical trials and etc. The application of modelling and simulation tools for these purposes is very convenient and perspective in order to decrease the experiments and therefore the total cost for the investigations. In this article, the process cultivation of CHO cells is considered in hollow-fib...