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Review Article
12.
Application of biotechnology to improve livestock
products -
Swati Gupta, C. V. Savaliya
Vet World. 2012; 5(10): 634-638
doi:
10.5455/vetworld.2012.
634-638
Abstract
Biotechnological achievements of recent years have
emerged as powerful tool to improve quality
attributes of livestock products including milk and
meat products. Biotechnological approaches can be
employed for improving productivity, economy,
physicochemical and nutritional attributes of a wide
range of livestock products. The target areas of
biotechnological research in the field of livestock
products can be envisaged as production of high
yielding food animal, improvement in quality of
their products, enhanced production of natural food
grade preservatives, efficient byproduct utilization
and so forth. Many of the biotechnological
techniques can be explored in the area of quality
assurance programmes, which would be of great help
to produce livestock products of assured quality and
public health safety.
Keywords:
biotechnology, livestock products, quality
assurance programmes, public health safety, quality
