Industrial biotechnology involves working with microorganisms found in nature and manipulating their biochemical pathway to produce new strain that maximize the production of biochemical and such as enzymes used for processing food, energy, textiles, plastics, oil and other products.
Several new industrial products such as antibiotics, vitamins, drugs are produced which are important for human survival.
Industrial biotechnology is one of the most promising new approaches to pollution prevention, resource conservation, and cost reduction.