Emerging industrial applications of microalgae: challenges and future perspectives

Microalgae are unicellular photosynthetic organisms that have been recently attracted potential interests and applications in food, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, animal feed, cosmetics, biofertilizers industry. rich a variety of high-value bioactive compounds which benefits on human health can be used for the prevention curing many disease conditions. But scale-up safety issues remain major challenge commercialization microalgal products cost-effective manner. However, techniques developed to overcome these challenges successfully selling derived from microalgae as cosmetics pharmaceutical industries. nutrients production functional food regulatory concerns extensive research is still needed make commercial success future. Many practical difficulties involved making industry commercially viable. The present review focuses industrial faced during production.