Institute of Food and Radiation Biology

Food Technology Division (FTD)

Phone: 88-02-7788248, Fax: 880-2-7701337
Email: aere@bangla.net, ifrbft@dhaka.net

Head: Dr. Md. Zahangir Alam


Objective

  1. To prevent post harvest loss of perishable food items using gamma radiation.
  2. Post harvest technology of fishes.
  3. Process and product development through gamma radiation and combination treatments.
  4. To develop appropriate technique for the shelf life extension of fish, meat and vegetables, fruits using combination treatments including gamma radiation.
  5. To develop convenience food products.
  6. Radiation preservation of fishes including salted fishes.
  7. Process control, acceptance and commercialization of irradiated food items

Activities

  1. Shelf life extension and measurement of quality of fish, meat, fruits and vegetables through gamma radiation and combination treatments.
  2. Radiation preservation of fruits, vegetable, meat and fishes as well as identification of irradiated food.

Services

  1. Food technology division provides analytical services to different poultry farms for the analyses of poultry feed against prescribed service charges.
  2. Academic training and Manpower development. Each year students from different universities receive research facilities from this division to complete their B.Sc. (Hons) internship, M.Sc. M.phil, Ph.D thesis. Industrial attachment training of the Diploma Engineering (Chem-food) students are also given every year.

Achievements

  1. Contral of D. Maculatus from dried fish.
  2. Establish a relative rate of spoilage chart.
  3. Shelf life measurement by Spencer and Baines equation
  4. Utilization of solar energy.
  5. Fish nutrition in particular portion and pieces.
  6. Utilization of undesirable small fishes
  7. Fish by products.
  8. Quality analyses and control of different food items.
  9. Developed different lipes of convinces fish items.
  10. Sprouting inhibition of unious and patatoes
  11. Shelf life extension of dried and fresh fishes.
  12. Production of patato chips
  13. Development of convenience food.

Major facilities

  1. Food nutrition
  2. Food quality analyses and control
  3. Food microbiology
  4. Quality measurements by organoleptic by semsory evaluations.
  5. Computers, printer.
  6. Broadband Internet.

Perspective Plan

  1. Human resource development in food irradiation.
  2. Establish a commercial solar dryer and bioreactor for amino acid production from fishes.
  3. Commercialization of irradiated foods.
  4. Process and products developments.
  5. Establish R and D activities.

publications

  1. Shelf-life extension of Indian Mackerd, Rastrelliger Kanagurta. Ann. Report July 2003-June 2..4. BAEC. P-76.
  2. Preservation of mola fish, Amblypharyngodon mola. Ann. report July 2003-June 2004. BAEC. P-76.
  3. Identification of irradiated food by detection oxidative DNA damage. Ann. report July 2004-June 2005. BAEC. P-66
  4. Shelf life extension of semidried mackerel, Rastrilliger canagurta fish preserved by radiation and combination treatment at low temperature 40C Ann. report July2004-June 2005. BAEC. P-66
  5. Effect of potassium sorbate and gamma radiation for the preservation of Mystus cavasius fish. Tech. report Jan. 2002- Dec. 2003. AERE. P-198.
  6. Lethal dose of potassium sorbate and radiation on spoilage bacterial isolated from mystus cavasius fish tech. report Jan. 2002-Dec. 2003. AERE P.-201.
  7. Effect of gamma radiation on the shelf life of jack fruit Juice. Tech. report-2004-Dec. 2004. AERE P-176.
  8. Effect of gamma radiation and chemical treatment on the shelf life extension of Indian Mackerel, Rastrelliger Kanagurta fish at low temperature 00C and 40C Tech. report Jan. 2004-Dec. 2004. AERE. P-181.
  9. Effect of gamma irradiation and vacuum packaging on the shelf life extension of Beef Kabab during refrigerated storage. Ann. report July 2005-June 2006.
  10. Development and preservation of carrot Halwa using gamma irradiation and temperature control Ann. report. July 2005-June 2006. BAEC.
  11. The effect of lonizing radiation and sodium chloridc on the survival of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from Kachki fish. Ann. report, July 2005-June 2006. BAEC.
  12. Inoculated bacterial method for the identification of irradiated fish. Ann. report July 2005-June 2006. BAEC.
  13. Controlling of dermestes maculatus Degeer coleoptera: Dermestidae through salt concentration on sword fish. Ann. report July 2005-June 2006. BAEC P-68.
  14. Inspection and quality analysis of chilling stored exportable Rui fish, Labeo rohita including some aspects of biochemical composition and determination of salt uptake capacity. Ann. report July 2005-June 2006. BAEC. P-68 and 69.
  15. Qualitative and quantative changes of exportable dried fish Bombay duck during short term preservation in two storage condition. Ann. report. July 2005-June 2006. BAEC. P-69.
  16. Control of Dermestes maculatus through combination treatment of salt contents and gamma radiation on dried sword fish, lepturacanthus savala, Ref. Nuclcar sciences andopplication, NSA/B-211/2007, Dated-24 Jan. 2008.
  17. Microbial quality analyses and control of irradiated dried pomfret, Pampus chinensis submitted, Ann. report, 2007. BAEC.
  18. Process control, acceptance and irradiated of salted-dehydrated hilsa fish. for commercial application-2008. Manuscript completed.

Resource person


Name and E-mail AddressDesignationLast QualificationField of Specialization
Dr. Md. Zahangir AlamPSOPh.D.Fish Sciences and Technology

Other Information

  1. Participated in six months orientation courses-1984-85 venue-IFRB. Theoretical and prject including seminar results A+ Grade position 1st Class 1st, marks obtained-84% organized by Manpower planning and training division, BAEC.
  2. Participated in seminar those were held in IFRB, BAEC and universities and research organizations in home and abroad.

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