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Students to Norway and Hungary for research agreement
2005-09-05
Students from the University of the Free State's (UFS) Department of
Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology will visit Norway and Hungary for three weeks as part of the SA/Norway and SA/Hungary research agreement on indigenous foods in Africa. The project aims to isolate starter cultures from indigenous fermented products with the intention to commercialise these cultures.
From left:
Ms Francisca Cohen, Ph D student in Microbiology; Ms Samantha van Hirtum, M Sc student in Microbiology; Prof Bennie Viljoen, research guide and lecturer at the UFS Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology; Ms Keba Pudumo, Honours student in Microbiology and Ms Chantal Smith, Honours student in Microbiology.