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Bioremediation of Food Industry Effluents: Recent Applications of Free and Immobilised Polyphenoloxidases

Department of Control and Management of Goods and their Impact on the Environment, University La Sapienza, Via del Castro Laurenziano 9, 00161 Rome, Italy

D. Restuccia

Department of Control and Management of Goods and their Impact on the Environment, University La Sapienza, Via del Castro Laurenziano 9, 00161 Rome, Italy

G. Vinci

Department of Control and Management of Goods and their Impact on the Environment, University La Sapienza, Via del Castro Laurenziano 9, 00161 Rome, Italy, giuliana.vinci{at}uniromal.it

Enzymes are specific biological catalysts able to react under mild conditions of temperature and pH and their use in food industry for bioremediation is well known. Research in recent years has been intense, much of it elicited by the great number of different exploitable enzymes. Employment of enzymes in many bioremediation processes is made in order to protect the environment from damage caused by industrial polluting effluents. In particular, the food industry is one of the most important sectors among the manufacturing industries as far as production values are concerned; indeed, food industry processes involve large amounts of water and contribute to pollution loads discharged into water resources. In particular the presence of phenols in agroindustrial effluents has attracted interest for laccases and tyrosinases use in wastewater treatment and bioremediation. The presence of phenolic compounds in drinking and irrigation water or in cultivated land represents a significant health and/or environmental hazard and, therefore, the development of methods for their removal and transformation have received increased attention in recent years. The main purpose of this paper was to present the most recent results dealing with the fundamental and applied aspects of free and immobilised polyphenoloxidases for food industry wastewater processing.

Key Words: bioremediation • food industry effluents • wastewater • enzymes • polyphenoloxidases • laccase • tyrosinase

Food Science and Technology International, Vol. 10, No. 6, 373-382 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1082013204049388


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