Yeast is a key tool for a wide range of new technologies, serving the efforts towards an efficient use of resources and a cleaner environment
Please find our leaflets on the uses of yeast for Pollution control & Waste treatment, and Precision Fermentation below
Because they can metabolise a wide range of organic pollutants and degrade toxic organic compounds, some yeast strains are being researched as a tool for pollution control and treatment of waste, such as wastewater, heavy metals and electronic waste.
Yeast is used in precision fermentation, a growing field of biotechnology.
In precision fermentation, yeast acts as a biological factory via the controlled cultivation of enhanced modified yeast cells to produce specific compounds of interest in the food & feed sectors such as protein, amino acid, fatty acid, flavour molecule, vitamin, pigments, enzymes or even in the pharmaceutical sector. At the end of the cultivation phase, the desired resulting compounds are filtered out, separating them from the yeast that produced them.
