Uses and benefits of biotechnology

Let’s begin with breakfast: with the slice of bread or the pot of yoghurt we are ingesting classic products of biotechnology. Maybe also a glass of apple juice? Biotechnologically manufactured enzymes have degraded the clouding agents in it. Apart from breakfast, unfortunately taking medications is part of the morning programme for many people. And here, too it is likely that biotechnological processes were used to develop or manufacture the drug. The comfortable stone washed jeans which we finally slip on; equally owe their appearance and structure to biotechnological procedures, as the material was treated with enzymes.

On the way to work a biotechnological product also plays a part in us being able to move forward: the fuel petrol contains up to five percent ethanol today. Having arrived at the work place with its help, we come into contact with further biotechnological products - of course depending on the sector. In the hospital for example with new implants, on the farm with enzymes in feeding aids, in the supermarket with the carrier bag made of bioplastics. In the evening we let biotechnology work for us - as washing powder in the washing machine.