CST-SA -ICC international grains symposium: quality and safety of grain crops and foods, 3-5 February 2010,University of Pretoria, South Africa

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Stanley P. Cauvain

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South Africa is proud to celebrate its diversity by describing itself as the ‘rainbow nation’. The International Grains Symposium organized by Cereal Science and Technology South Africa (CST-SA) and the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC) certainly celebrated the diversity with around 150 scientists and technologists (a number which exceeded the organizers expectations) from 17 countries gathering to discuss Quality and Safety of Grain Crops and Foods. The primary raw materials discussed included wheat,
barley, maize, sorghum, millets, rice, spelt, tef and even Marama beans, an as yet undomesticated legume. Along with the wide variety of raw materials the symposium covered a wide range of final products. In addition to many types of bread speakers considered cookies, gluten-free products, beer and even fish feed. In describing her work  on fish feed Corinda Erasmus, CSIR Biosciences South Africa, highlighted the unique challenge she faced in persuading carnivorous fish species to turn ‘vegetarian’ so that she could examine the impact of changes of feed composition on the growth of farmed fish. In five sessions the symposium ranged from crop breeding and evaluation, crop storage and risks, product manufacture and development, along with impacts on diet and health.

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