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ONYEKWERE, Okpo Oji

B.Sc, M.Sc, bacteriologist, food technologist, bom No vember 13, 1939,Okoko Item, Bende, Abia State; married Grace Nnenna 1967, two sons, one daughter; Education: Methodist Central School, Item, 1945-50, Methodist College, Uzuakoli, 1951 -56,Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, 1957, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1958-62; Career: Research Officer, Bacteriology, Veterinary Research Unit, Vom, 1963; Qual ity Control Chemist, Flour Mills ofNigeria, Apapa, 1963-67; Quality Control Manager, Tema Foods Corporation, Tema, Ghana, 1971-75; Principal Research Officer, Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO), 1975-78; Chief Research Officer, FIIRO, 1978-87;appointed Assistant Direc tor, FIIRO, 1987; fellow, Nigerian Institute of Food Science & Technology, since 1977; member, Nigerian Society for Microbiology, 1976; member, American Association of Cereal Chemists; member, Institute of Food Technologists, USA; Chief Editor, NIFST, 1977-82;former consultant, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation onCas sava ProcessingTechnology; Consultant on upgraded indigenous food processing tech nology, especially in Root & Tuber & Ce real Grains Processing & Utilization; Con sultanton Bread Baking withSpecial…

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Refer ence to the Use of Composite Flour; mem ber, Nigerian Society for Microbiology, 1976; fellow, Nigerian Institute of Food Sci ence and Technology, 1977; Chief Editor, NIFST, 1977-82; Publications: Co-author, Nigerian Gari &Nigerian Ogi - Handbook of indigenous Fermented Foods, March DekkerInc., 1983;Co-author, Industrializa tion ofIndigenous Fermented Food, Marcel Dekker Inc., 1989; Hobbies: lawn tennis, reading, gardening; Official Address: Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, PMB 21023, Ikeja, Lagos; Telephone: 01- 522-760; Home: Flat 7, Federal Institute of Industrial Research Compound Residential Quarters, Blind School Road, Oshodi, La gos; Telephone: 01-521-042.

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