Animal Blood in Food, Feed, Fertilizer, Industry, Medicine and Laboratory

摘要

This review on animal blood is an attempt to bring into one compilation, the entire state of art, as it exists today, on the various end-uses for animal blood. It will be of interest to note that animal blood has found application in many industries. Viewing objectively the predicted world protein shortage and malnutrition, the use of animal blood in the feed, food and pharmacy appears to win a greater justification than its use in other industrial applications. Such an application is of far more greater relevance in the developing countries where acute shortage of protein is a scourge. Synthetic polymers may be expected to totally replace the industrial uses for blood in the near future. This review can be expected to serve a dual role.