THE BIOTECHNOLOGICAL UTILIZATION OF CHEESE WHEY - A REVIEW

Cheese-whey utilization has been the subject of much research. BOD red uctions of higher than 75%, with the concomitant production of biogas, ethanol, single cell protein or another marketable product, have been achieved and about half the whey produced nowadays is not a pollutant but a resource. However annual world cheese-whey production is increa sing and new bioproductions are being sought through biotechnology in order to get full use of the whey produced. In this paper the most rep resentative applications of cheese whey being exploited and under rese arch are briefly discussed. Copyright (C) 1996 Published by Elsevier S cience Ltd.