On the possibility of using a food product based on colostrum on the health of workers employed in hazardous working conditions (literature review)

Abstract

Currently, the biological value of colostrum is generally considered as a resource of biotechnologies for the production of functional food products capable of purposefully improving the state of actual nutrition of certain categories of the population. At the same time, the use of essential micronutrients included in colostrum is significantly limited by the complexity of technological processes for the manufacture of biologically active additives based on a natural product. The article is devoted to the generalization and systematization of available information about the macronutrient composition of colostrum, the biological value of essential micronutrients included in the product, immunomodulatory, regulatory and prebiotic properties. The authors present examples of the use of colostrum and its fractions in the form of medicines and biologically active food additives. The possibilities of using a functional food product based on colostrum in industrial workers as a physiologically functional food ingredient with antioxidant effect, radioprotective properties, the possibility of neutralizing xenobiotics, binding heavy metals, arsenic compounds, cyanides, aromatic hydrocarbons are substantiated. The resource for information search is the bibliographic databases Medline and RSCI.