Faculty

• B V Sc. an d AH and M V Sc. ( Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology), CCSHAU, Hisar
• Ph D ( Veterinary Public Health), KVASU, Pookode
• PG Diploma in One Health, KVASU, Pookode

• Co- Investigator in ICAR Project – Outreach Programme on zoonotic diseases since 2009
• Co-Investigator in Revolving Fund Project –Evaluation of Quality of food and Water
• Principal Investigator in various State Plan projects since 2013 pertaining to foodborne bacterial pathogens and Epidemiology of Leptospirosis

• Research Associate in ICAR Projects , KAU- 2000-2004
• Veterinary Surgeon in Animal Husbandry Department, Kerala , 2005-2008
• Assistant Professor, KVASU since June 2008
• Implementing Officer – School of Zoonoses Public Health and Pathobiology since 2017
• Deputy Quality Manager of NABL Accredited Quality Control Laboratory since 2015
• Course Director – Technology Enabled Distance Learning PG Diploma Course on Food Safety and Quality Assurance since 2015

• Best Oral Presentation Award in Kerala Veterinary Science Congress , 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019
• Best oral presentation award in the National seminar on ‘Food adequacy & Climate Change, Strategies for Sustainable Food Production’, AMST, held at Thrisssur, 2017
• Best poster presentation at IVthconvention AMST-Gannavaram

• Field Practitioner Training on Veterinary Public Health Community Approach at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine & Veterinary Public Health Center for Asia Pacific, , Chiang Mai University, Thailand. 2009
• Training Programme on Laboratory Quality System Management & Internal Audit of the National Accreditation Board for Testing & Caliberation Laboratories (NABL) ISO 17025:2005 in 2014
• Trainers training on Culture of Responsibility (Biosafety Training) organized by American Society of Microbiologists at 2015, Bengaluru .
• Training on Antimicrobial resistance in fish and aquatic environment and its impact on human health , 2017, CIFT, Cochin
• Lead Instructor training for FSPCA Preventive Controls for human food , USFDA, 2019, Mumbai
• Training on Risk factors and Economic Impact analysis of zoonotic diseases – 2019, NIVEDI, Bengaluru

Books / Book chapters

• Book Edited : Eds. K VrindaMenon, Lucy KM and Jiji R S
• Introduction to Animal Welfare , 2014 , KVASU Publication, Pookode
• Book Edited : Eds. K Devada, S Maya, Deepa Jolly, K VrindaMenon and A.K. Deepa. Shalihotrayam. 2015, KVASU, Publication, Pookode.
• B Sunil and K VrindaMenon. 2012. Occupational risk alleviation in livestock sector 2012. In :Veterinary and livestock sector –A blueprint for capacity building. Satish Serial Publication House New Delhi
• Chapter: Animal Welfare Organisations in India In Introduction to Animal Welfare Editors K VrindaMenon, KM Lucy and R.S. Jiji
• K VrindaMenon and B Sunil 2015. Community based approach for zoonoses control. In:Zoonoses: Bacterial Diseases. DayaPublishing House, New DelhiPublished by Daya Publishing House, New Delhi.
• Chapter on Diseases and Climate change In: Global Food security and future Livestock farms in varied climates Published by DE, KVASU , 2013.

Research Papers

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• K V. Menon and S R Garg 2001. Inhibitory effect of clove oil on Listeria monocytogenes in meat and cheese. Food Microbiol. 18 (6) : 647-650.
• Menon ,K. V., Sunil, B., Latha, C., Nithya, K. R and
• Kumar, A. 2015. Listeria monocytogenes biofilms on food contact surfaces under different growth conditions. Global J. Res. Analysis.4 (4): 40-41
• Menon ,K. V., Sunil, B., Latha, C., and Sunanda C 2017.
• Survivability of Listeriamonoctyogenes in sea water from coast of Kerala India off Arabian sea. Poll. Res. 36(3) : 588-592.
• Sreekutty, S.S., Vrinda, K.M, Latha, C., Sunil, B. and.
• Ambily, R 2020. Seroprevalence of leptospirosis in cattle in Mannancherry Panchayat of Alappuzha district. J. Vet. Anim. Sci. 51(2) : 115- 118.
• Hebbal MA, Latha C, Vrinda Menon K, DeepaJ . 2020
• Occurrence of oxytetracycline residuesin milk samples from palakkad, Kerala, India, Veterinary World, 13(6): 1056-1064.

Review articles

• K VrindaMenon 2016. Biofilm and Food Industry. Int J Adv. Res. Biol. Sci. 3(4): 137-142
• Archana, S.N., VrindaMenon, P Sathya and C Srinivasan. 2018. Climate change and emergence of vector borne zoonoses. Int.J. Sci.Environ. 7(1): 193-200.