4. Industrial implementation

The performance of a culture for the industrial production of antibiotics depends on its technological capacity to achieve the following three major objectives:

• achieve efficient growth resulting in a large quantity of biomass in a physiological state compatible with production. In some cases, very good growth can result in the production of biomass unsuitable for antibiotic synthesis;

• maintain biomass in optimal production conditions for as long as possible;

• ensure that the growth and production phases, as well as the extraction and purification stages, are as cost-effective as possible.