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A technoeconomic study indicated that nearly 40,000 tons of SCP (single-cell protein) would be required in Kuwait for domestic consumption by the year 1985. Several SCP production routes including different feedstocks, yeasts and bacteria were examined. The thermotolerant methanol-bacteria route was selected for research at KISR as it involves lower costs for cooling. A thermotolerant mixed bacterial culture, NBR, was discovered from screening more than 200 methanol utilizers. The culture was found to have good growth at 42°C and 6.8 pH. Nutritional and sub-chronic toxicity studies on rats, chicks and cocks revealed that the KISR SCP has a high nutritional value and has no sub-chronic toxicity at inclusion levels up to 24%. Currently, research activities are directed towards developing a SCP technology based on monocultures. Eight pure isolates have been successfully obtained from NBR, two of which seem promising.
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Report No. 1494, Kuwait.
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Hamdan, I.Y., Asthana, H.N., Al-Awadi, N., ElNawawy, A.S., Banat, I., Salman, A.J. (1986). Production of Single Cell Protein from Thermotolerant Methanol-Utilizing Cultures for Animal Feed. In: Alani, D.I., Moo-Young, M. (eds) Perspectives in Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4321-6_4
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