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Japan — the first and only country that suffered from the atom bomb — was the first country that paid serious attention to the environment. It took them 28 years of hard work to organize the industrial production of chitin and chitosan sorbents, made from crab shells.
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Velichko, B.A., Kulakov, B.M., Rudak, E.A. (1997). Aspects of the Production of Bio- and Phyto-Sorbents for Radionuclides and Heavy Metals. In: Ronneau, C., Bitchaeva, O. (eds) Biotechnology for Waste Management and Site Restoration. NATO ASI Series, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1467-4_15
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