Department of toxicology, safety and quality of agricultural products

Laboratory safety and quality of agricultural products


The Head of Department, the Head of Laboratory:
KUTSAN Oleksandr Tyhonovych, Doctor of Science (Vet. Med.), professor, NAASU Corresponding Member
phone: (057) 707-20-42
toxi-lab@vet.kharkov.ua

   Research areas:
   – study of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of novel therapeutic preparations, toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics of different toxicants;
   – toxico-hygienic profile determination for the new pesticides;
   – development of new methods of animal intoxication diagnostics;
   – development, improvement and adaptation of methods of detection of toxicants of different origin (pesticides, mycotoxins, inorganic elements, etc.) and medicinal agents (antibiotics, anthelminthic) in biological objects;
   – estimation of the efficiency of the effect of disinfectants of different chemical groups on the test-cultures of mold fungi;
   – monitoring of content of heavy metals (Zn, Cu, Fe, Ni, Mn, Sr, U, Pb) in biological substrate and medicinal forms by the method of X-ray- fluorescent analysis;
   – investigation of feeds, clinical and pathological materials concerning occurance of toxicants of different origin (pesticides, mycotoxins, alkaloids etc.);
   – toxicological monitoring of feeds, fodder additives and objects of animal origin concerning content of pesticides and other poisons, mycotoxins, microscopic fungi, inorganic elements.

Expertise area: toxicology, mycology, quality and safety of products of animal origin.

Laboratory for bee diseases study


The Head of Laboratory:
MASLIY Iryna Grygorivna, Candidate of Science (Vet. Met.)
phone: (057) 707-20-04
bee-lab@vet.kharkov.ua

Research areas:
 - monitoring of especially dangerous bee diseases on the territory of Ukraine;
 - diagnostics and differential diagnostics of bee parasitogenic diseases (varroosis, acarapidosis, Nosema disease, Amoeba disease, tropilaelapsos, small hive beetle and others);
 - study of biological characteristics of the agents of infectious and parasitogenic bee diseases;
 - development of ecologically safe methods and means for bee protection from occurrence and spread of especially dangerous diseases;
 - determination of nonspecific resistance of insect organism with the purpose of disease occurrence forecast;
 - investigation of apiculture products concerning determination of quality and safety (honey, propolis, beeswax, farina, royal jelly, etc.).

Expertise area: viral, bacterial, parasitogenic bee diseases (epizootiology, virology, parasitology, microbiology), quality and safety of apiculture products.