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• 8. Contamination is minimal due to highly alkaline pH levels.

• 9. The wet biomass is sun dried on polythene sheets by the indivisual or spray-dried in mechanised units for marketing purposes.

• 10. The culture of spirulina needs to be carried out with almost care with spray-drying the product is for human consumption.

References:- • Yahoo Groups; Spirulina

Erythrocytes http://www.biochemj.org/bj/369/0429/bj3690429.htm

• C. Stamatopoulos, 2002, Sample based fishery surveys, A technical handbook, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 425, Rome 2002.

• Narain, P., 1999, How to integrate economic aspects of agriculture with other economic activities of households: farm plus non-farm income, Development and improvement of economic statistics for food and agriculture, Joint ECE-OECD-Eurostat-FAO Meeting on Food and Agricultural Statistics in Europe (Geneva, 23 - 25 June 1999).

• FAO/FIDI, 2000, Inland fishery and freshwater aquaculture production statistics in Asia/Pacific- Some suggestions for their improvement, Asia Pacific Commission for Agricultural Statistics (APCAS) 18th Session, Bali, Indonesia, 6 - 10 November 2000.