Interview

Eco friendly concept is not new to India

Advanced Enzyme Technologies is one of the important players in Indian and global market that provide eco friendly enzymes.
C L Rathi, managing director of Advanced Enzyme Technologies analyses more in talks with Sachin Jagdale

How will the use of eco friendly enzymes help different industries to cut down processing and manufacturing costs?

Enzymes are very target specific and they operate on mild temperature and pH conditions. This helps you to save tremendous energy and treatment cost. Beside the cost advantage, with role of enzymes you get improved and desired quality which in turn reduces number of further steps.

What are the challenges in preparing eco-friendly enzymes?

It is a complex science of biotech and mastering each enzyme for production is very challenging.

What is the current percentage of application of eco-friendly enzymes in India?

Indian enzyme market is barely two percent of world market, although our population is close to 16 percent of world's population. US alone accounts for 35 percent of global enzyme market.

How will the use of enzymes reduce the toxicity/side effects of drugs?

All the drugs actions are either to suppress or to increase some or the other enzyme action in the body. The whole body functions are executed using enzymes only. So every drug has direct/indirect action on our body enzyme. But our understanding of body enzymes is quite limited and hence we are not using as many enzymes as we should. Our company is focusing on increasing this understanding to help mankind to live more healthy life.

From the environmental and economic point of view, what kind of revolution you would expect in India with the use of eco-friendly enzymes?

Eco-friendly concept is not new to India. Our Vedic traditions have highlighted the beneficial benefits of being eco-friendly /eco-safe. Thus various Vedas are demonstrated aptly by many sages. In fact, we are the only people on this planet who worship every thing which is a part of this nature. The recent race and industrial revolution unfortunately got blinded and that's why the role of enzymes has become more important.

What are the new products in the pipeline?

We are planning to introduce fungal lactase for lactose intolerance. More than 80 percent people suffer from lactose intolerance, without being aware of it. When they drink milk, they get high amount of gas, and they don't consult doctor. We are also going to offer lactase enzyme to dairy product producers so that they can offer lactose free dairy products like yoghurt, shrikhand etc so that indigestion and gas troubles can be avoided. We are also planning to launch complete eco friendly solutions to paper producers who recycle from waste paper.

sachin.jagdale@expressindia.com