CSIR Bio/Chemtek

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CSIR Bio/Chemteks

• Capabilities Around Food Security
• Dr Andrew Bailey
• Operations ManagerFood Science and Technology
  Programme

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Bio/Chemtek

• Division of Food, Biological and Chemical
  Technologies
• One of 8 CSIR Divisions

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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

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• Food security exists 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.

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• Food security exists 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.

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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

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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

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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
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Safe Food

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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CSIR Bio/Chemtek

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