Tanneries:Collagen's new source

摘要

EU research network Eureka is developing a project to extract pure collagen hydrolysates from solid leather production wastes.The study currently has a euro 1.8m 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".