REMINDER: with venue and time changes
Dear Members,
This event has had to be moved to another venue in addition to which the times have had to change.
The new venue, with grateful thanks to the Meat Industry Centre of the ARC-Irene, is the Ralph Hirzel Auditorium.
The new time is 14:15 for 14:30.
Refer to the amended notice below for other important details.
Regards,
Virosha Basdeo
SAAFoST National Secretariat
Tel: 031 3688 000
SAAFoST Northern Branch Lecture
Thursday 27 October 2016
Dear Northern Branch Members,
Visiting Professor Ahussein Mohammed Al-Awaadhi (Assiry) of Food Process Engineering of the Agricultural Engineering Department at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will be spending a few days at the University of Pretoria and has kindly agreed to address SAAFoST Members and guests in the Ralph Hirzel Auditorium of the Meat Industry Centre at the ARC-Irene on Thursday 27 October.
Prof Assiry has a BSc in Agricultural Engineering from the King Saud University and an MSc and PhD from the Colorado State University in the USA. His research interests include the development of palm and date products and processes, solar desalination, nanofiltration of food materials, aseptic and thermal processing, non-thermal aseptic processing, ohmic heating and extrusion. He is a member of the International Society of Food Engineering.
Join us for possibly our first ever presentation on palm date products.
Regards,
Denise Metcalfe
Chair: SAAFoST Northern Branch (2015-2017)
Development and characterisation of new, palm date based products
Date: Thursday 27 October 2016
Venue: Ralph Hirzel Auditorium, ARC-Irene
Directions & Map:
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Programme:
| TIME | SCHEDULE |
| 14:15 for 14:30 | Arrival |
| 14:30 - 15:20 | Welcome, announcements, presentations, discussion, questions |
| 15:20 | Tea and Coffee |
Cost: No charge but bookings essential.
Booking: Book through Irene Burke by Wednesday morning, 26 October at the very latest.
Email: saafost.irene@telkomsa.net.
Book by Fax: 086 698 4784 or
Book by Telephone: 012- 349 2788
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