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Biotechnology refines and extends methods that produce new plants and animals biotechnology has a long history of use in food production and processing for ten thousand years fermentation a form of biotechnology has been used to produce wine beer and bread selective breeding of animals such as horses and dogs has been going on for centuries. Food biotechnology is the use of technology to modify the genes of our food sources our food sources are animals plants and microorganisms with food biotechnology we create new species of animals and plants for example specifically animals and plants that we eat. In food biotechnology proteomics is used for bioprocess improvement validation and quality control some microorganisms are also a cause of several undesired effects such as pollution and food poisoning and proteomics increasingly is used for their characterization and detection. In its broadest definition biotechnology is any technique which uses living organisms to make products to improve plants or animals or to develop microbes for specific uses this definition covers the traditional techniques of plant breeding animal husbandry and fermentation which can trace their roots back thousands of years