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Danmark is in first place for environment care. Best places to live in the world are in Denmark. History of food in Denmark is interesting; Smorgasbord is a traditional weeding dish. King Christian IV in XVI century opened his kingdom to european food, lowering meat and increasing butter cookies.

Because of weather, Denmark always lacked of fruits, citrus are so precious that Danish people invented lemon-pie prepared with citrus peels. DANISCO (Danish Sugar Company) produces as well turnip sugar than beet sugar and reuses citrus peels to produce citrus pectin. Another company: HENSEN, is the most important starter cultures producer in the world. Lactic Bacteria from Hensen starts all yogurt bowls from french's main dairy company: " Dannon". Trying to make cleaner biotechnology, a Danish company JURAG (http://jurag.dk) empoyed REED (reversal enhanced electrodialysis) as a new way to control those processes.

Lactic acid is not only a by-product of starter cultures, it's too the raw stuff for a environment-friendly plastic package. Polylactide (PLA), a new polymer, derivated from lactic acid is changing the way people contaminate environment. Before polylactide, everything was packaged in PET (polyethylen), expensive and contaminant plastic. Recently, mexicain industries expensed hundreds of millions of dollars in a reuse plant for PET. This is a mistake because ECOCE should have think into a Mexican Polylactide processing plant. Polylactide is quickly displacing PET from commodity stores. Soon this will happen too with other polyester, polyolefines, and cellulosic (hoja de tamal) old dirty and polluting packages. PLA corn's starch process plant in USA (http://www.natureworksllc.com) is now displacing this PET on Mexican market. With dansih technology, PLA production technology  based on edible corn's starch will be archaical. Danish prefer to employ starter culture waste water or even citrus peels to produce Polylactide, keeping corns starch for feed.

Vidimport, a very important fresh fruits and vegetables brooker has designed a fully renewable products line employing PLA in packages. Organic washington apples are now sold in a PLA clamshell. This product was awarded by Walmart's Superama as "Product of the month". If Vidimport hasn't looked to JURAG Latin-American still be polluting his ecosystem with PET as many big companies are still doing.

Other Electrodialysis Utilizations

• Drinking water production (Levité de Bonafont)

• Sugar production (Aspartame, High Fructose Corn Syrup by Archer Daniel's Midland)