“…Notulae Botanicae Horti Cluj-Napoca Agrobotanici 2 Chitosan is extracted from chitin found in the exoskeleton of crustaceans (Fournier et al, 2020), fungal cell wall (Chang et al, 2019), insect cuticle (Luo et al, 2019), among others. Chitosan has been used in waste water treatment (Uragami et al, 2015), cosmetology (Aranaz et al, 2018), medicine (Ahsan et al, 2018), pharmaceutics (Khan et al, 2019), food and beverage (Rocha et al, 2017), and paper industries (Song et al, 2018), among others.…”