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Food And Biomedical Technology Institute

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE

The Food and Biomedical Technology Institute (FBTI) was established in the year 2002 as an autonomous technical department of the SIRDC. FBTI undertakes focused research and development to rejuvenate growth and sustainable expansion in the food and biochemical industries and to discover new compounds and techniques of pharmaceutical and medical importance through scientific and technological exploration of Zimbabwe's vast biodiversity.


OBJECTIVES

- To develop and reduce to practice technologies and processes that will promote food, pharmaceutical and biochemical industries in the country
- To provide technical consultancy and training services to food, chemical, biochemical, biomedical and pharmaceutical industries
- To offer analytical services to food, chemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical industries

INSTITUTE DIVISIONS
The divisions and their areas of activity are as follows:

a) Industrial Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering
- Microbial physiology
- Fermentation technology
- Enzyme technology
- Process engineering and control
- Chemical and biochemical analysis
- Bioconversions and bio-transformations
- Separation techniques and downstream processing
- Environmental bioprocess technology
- Process economics

b) Food Technology
- Food Process technology
- Process control and monitoring
- Food chemistry
- Food microbiology and safety
- Food chemical and microbiological analysis
- New product development

c) Biomedical Technology
- Medical biochemistry
- Medical microbiology
- Synthetic and natural products chemistry
- Pharmaceutical chemistry
- Safety and toxicological evaluations

 

 
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