TANNERY WASTE: COLLAGEN
March 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka is developing a research project to extract pure collagen hydrolysates from solid leather production wastes. The study currently has a Euro 1.8 million budget, which should grow over its four-year life, until 2008. Its aim, said Eureka, was to use a "cocktail of enzymes (to) produce high quality collagen containing pomoads for the treatment of patients having various ranges of burning on their skin". The project is led by Turkey's Marmara University, with anticipated Greek and German support. * ...
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