Mr. Edmund Tei Sottie PhD

Principal Research Scientist (Head of Division)

Mrs. Nikki Owiredu

Senior Research Scientist

Ms. Theresah Nkrumah

Principal Technologist (Meat Science)

Mr. Thomas Agyei Ansong

Principal Technologist (Food & Post-Harvest)

Ms. Sheila Aikins-Wilson

Research Scientist

FOCUS OF THE 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 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 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.