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CSIR Bio/Chemtek’s

CSIR Bio/Chemtek’s. Capabilities Around Food Security Dr Andrew Bailey Operations Manager Food Science and Technology Programme. Bio/Chemtek. Division of Food, Biological and Chemical Technologies One of 8 CSIR Divisions. Bio/Chemtek. Comprises 6 Programmes Food Science and Technology

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CSIR Bio/Chemtek’s

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  1. CSIR Bio/Chemtek’s Capabilities Around Food Security Dr Andrew Bailey Operations ManagerFood Science and Technology Programme

  2. Bio/Chemtek • Division of Food, Biological and Chemical Technologies • One of 8 CSIR Divisions

  3. Bio/Chemtek • Comprises 6 Programmes • Food Science and Technology • Biotechnology • Bioprospecting • Technology for Development • Speciality and Fine Chemicals • PROBE (Analytical) • Located in Pretoria, Johannesburg & Cape Town • 300 scientists, engineers, technicians

  4. Food securityexists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

  5. Food securityexists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

  6. Economic Access Enabling people to afford to buy food • Lowering costs • Reduction of post harvest losses • Waste beneficiation = byproducts • New processes / packaging • Developing drought resistant crops

  7. Economic Access • Job Creation • Essential oils projects • Community-based licorice facility in E. Cape • Commercialisation of indigenous products • Poverty Alleviation Project – DST & CSIR • ID indigenous foods • Create sustainable SMMEs / processing centres • Marketing and commercialisation • Active in 5 provinces

  8. Indigenous Foods Sunday Times : Sunday 01 Sep 2002 Visitors develop a taste for home-grown cuisine World Summit Bobby Jordan LOCAL proved to be lekker at the World Summit this week, with delegates wolfing down mopani worms, maize chocolates and other indigenous food. INDIGENOUS GRUB: South African Nic de Bruyn prepares to eat a mopani worm Picture: Marianne Pretorius

  9. Safe Food • Analytical • Fish • mercury, histamine, marine biotoxins • Cereals • Aflotoxins • Microbiological • Pathogens, spoilage organisms, etc. • Local and international regulations • Food quality management • GMP, HACCP

  10. Safe Food • Shelf-life • Microbial, nutritional and sensory evaluation • Traditional products (household processing) – scientific evaluation • Developing shelf-stable products • Extending shelf-life • Product packaging • Canning, etc.

  11. Nutritious Food • Innovation Fund project : novel fortification product from fish heads • Food formulation • fortification •  protein content, etc. • Alternative technology / improved quality • Food products for immuno-deficient people • Crop modification

  12. Vitamin A Deficiency in Africa • The CSIR is the first institution worldwide to gain permission for the transfer of the "golden rice" technology to maize and sorghum under a sub-sub licence from the developers, Syngenta. • This agreement represents a major breakthrough in terms of the responsible introduction of the technology for the alleviation of vitamin A deficiency in Africa.

  13. CSIR Bio/Chemtek www.csir.co.za

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