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Agricultural products tend to be thought of as being used for food for humans and animals, and it is true that for thousands of years the main source of food was from plants and animals. However, after the Industrial Revolution it was realized that agricultural raw materials could also be used for industry. Recently, it has been reported that almost 50% of the carbon from plants and animals was used in France for non-food purposes, e.g. wood, cellulose, textiles, aromatic and medicinal compounds, starch, mono-and polysaccharides are all obtained from plants; while carbon from animals was represented by wool, fur, blood, tallow, feathers, and organs used for pharmaceutical purposes, e.g. hypophysis or liver. For instance, in Europe 200 million tons of wood and its derivatives are used, oil and fat 3 million tons, starch 1.25 tons, cotton 0.1 million tons and rubber 0.65 million tons1.
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Paraf, A., Peltre, G. (1991). Immunoassays in the Agrofood Industry. In: Immunoassays in Food and Agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3822-2_9
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