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Introductory Remark

The 10th International Conference on Chitin and Chitosan (10th ICCC) was the second scientific meeting of the series to be organized in France, the country where Henri Braconnot discovered chitin. It is a pleasure for us to remind everybody that this discovery published in 1811 was the first on a polysaccharide, a few years before that of cellulose.

The 10th ICCC was organized under the hospices of the European Chitin Society and then, also constituted the 7th International Conference of the European Chitin Society (EUCHIS ’06). This Society was founded 15 years ago and is the second in the world with a number of members continuously increasing since its start.

Our Society is at the origin of the series of the books “Advances in Chitin Science”. Since techniques of publishing have considerably evolved during the last decade, we have the pleasure to inaugurate the first electronic issue of this series of proceeding books. As you shall see, the presentation is quite similar to that of a printed book with the advantage to offer an easier reading. Indeed, it is possible to find a paper through various ways consisting for example to click on a given name in the list of authors, a keyword, or the reference numbers attributed for the Conference. We hope that you will enjoy this new kind of presentation.

All the photographs collected all along the 4 days of scientific meeting in Montpellier are also joined together with the book in the CD.

The organizers would like to thank all the chairpersons of the scientific sessions who contributed to the success of the program.

This Conference received a large success, if we consider both the quality of the presentations and the great number of attendees. We wish a long life to the science of chitin/chitosan as well as to these series of Conferences, with a great number of participants, in particular for EUCHIS ’07 taking place in Antalya (Turkey) in September 07 and the 11th ICCC organized in Taiwan in 09.

The Chairmen of the 10th ICCC.

Alain Domard, Eric Guibal and Kjell M. Vårum