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New enzyme research from University of Napoli Federico II described

Published in Drug Law Weekly, December 23rd, 2008

Research findings, 'Dephenolization and detoxification of olive-mill wastewater (OMW) by purified biotic and abiotic oxidative catalysts,' are discussed in a new report. According to recent research from Portici, Italy, "The capability of two oxidative catalysts, a laccase from Rhus vernicifera and birnessite, a manganese oxide, in the dephenolization and detoxification of two olive-mill wastewater (OMW) samples, C1 and C2, differing for complexity and composition, was evaluated. OMW phenolic extracts (EC1 and EC2) and mono-substrate solutions of phenols mostly present in OMW samples were also tested."

"Birnessite was more effective than laccase in removing the phenolic...

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