Hardly any other term in the ?eld of biotechnologyhas been the subject of so muchdiscussionamongexpertsaswhitebiotechnologyatpresent.Thistermis an alias for industrial biotechnology, an already established heavyweight that focuses on the production of the most diverse products (bulk and ?ne chemicals, enzymes, food and animal feed additives, pharmaceutically active substances and agrochemicals, auxiliary agents for processindustries, etc.). Insomesegments, whitebiotechnologyhasalreadycapturedleadingmarket positions: In recent years the annual biotechnological production of amino acids...