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Whether it's made by microbes or industrial processes, the dye is still chemicals. Every physical object is chemicals. The microbes are made of chemicals and
by mkl 11mo ago
Whether it's made by microbes or industrial processes, the dye is still chemicals. Every physical object is chemicals. The microbes are made of chemicals and make chemicals.
- n4r9 11mo agoBut the article is clearly talking about those artificial chemicals that aren't natural!
- XorNot 11mo agoProbably more importantly though, there's no particular reason the chemicals made by bacteria should be safer or less impactful to the environment. There's a few reasons to think that would tend to be the case, but any given compound isn't magically safe for human exposure because a micro-organism synthesized it.
- thatcat 11mo agoI mean the downstream processes for extraction after biosynthesis are different and generally less likely to introduce other harmful chemicals.
- XorNot 11mo agoThat's really not true though. The downstream processes after biosynthesis will have steps like "lyse all the cells open" and ,"definitely and thoroughly kill them and the off target proteins". Like you're going to do a lot of very specific, biotoxic things.
- thatcat 11mo agoIt has water as the solvent so plenty of techniques here that dont involve toxic things such as rapid heat pasteurization, as is done in milk processing. Also see centerfugation, crystalization, filtration, etc. You can lyse all cells with shear force easily by mixing excessively fast.