Focus of Division

1. Develop new products
2. Develop technologies to extend the shelf-life of livestock products
3. Develop improved technologies for the promotion of livestock-based food safety standards
4. Increase the market share of CSIR- Animal Research Institute products

Current R & D Activities

• Food (Meat) safety with emphasis on food-borne bacteria
• Epidemiology of important zoonoses in food and human-animal-environment interface
• Antimicrobial resistance of zoonotic bacterial pathogens
• Meat Quality Modifications (Packaging, Nutrition, Value addition)
• Biogenic amines in fish for improving quality and shelf- life of salted and fermented fish
• Value addition, shelf-life improvement, smoking methods of fermented meat and fish
• Postharvest handling of animal products
• Genotype by environment interactions on factors influencing phenotypic characteristics of farm animals
• Polymorphisms in the myostatin and GHRL genes in the Shorthorn cattle in Ghana
• Association of the myostatin and GHRL genes with growth and carcass traits
• Molecular identification of meat
• Dried egg products development (Egg Powders)
• Extraction of lipids from egg yolk
• Development of liquid fertilizer from animal urine
• Evaluate food safety knowledge and practices of Ghanaian consumers with regards to meat handling and consumption.
• Develop a Quantitative Risk Assessment model to predict consumers the burden and Campylobacteriosis associated with retail meat consumers