Upcycling mussel cooking effluents into high-value marine metabolites
Aquabiotics Sur is a marine biotechnology project focused on the recovery and purification of natural taurine from residual cooking broth generated by the mussel industry in southern Chile. Through a sustainable biorefinery approach, we transform an industrial liquid waste stream into a high-value functional ingredient, aligned with circular economy principles and territorial impact.
The mussel cooking process generates large volumes of liquid effluents with high organic load, currently managed as waste. These residual streams contain valuable endogenous metabolites, such as taurine, which are lost despite their significant industrial and functional value.
This represents both an environmental liability and a missed economic opportunity for the marine food processing sector.
Aquabiotics Sur applies marine biorefinery and selective separation technologies to recover taurine naturally present in mussel cooking broth.
The result is a scalable platform for the sustainable production of marine-derived metabolites.