Analytical methodology in biotechnology: An overview

For every advance in scientific knowledge, there must a development of a method or technique to uncover new information. Biotechnology is the use of biological agents to provide us with foods and flavors with better quality and/or higher yields. In order to follow changes brought about by biotechnology, we must have better methods of evaluating these changes for food quality or for toxicity aspects. In this section, various methods for isolation, identification and characterization of food constituents altered by biotechnology are discussed.