Food & Beverage Asia December 2020/January 2021

SIFST Annual Report 2020
Food Technology and Culinary for Tourism Industry”, the event
drew more than 700 participants, including delegates from the
International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) and
FIFSTA.
SIFST was represented by the 43rd President Mr Richard Khaw
and Fellow Member Professor Zhou Weibiao. Mr Richard Khaw also
represented SIFST to exhibit the Food Product Awards winning
products at the ASEAN Food Product Awards exhibition held in
conjunction with the Conference. All three products from Nutrixin
Appeel, Cookie Museum – The Floral Collection, and Asia Farm
Purple Tea were recognised and received the ASEAN Best Food
Products Award certification.
Agency (SFA), National Centre for Food Science (NCFS) on 16 Oct
2019. We were very grateful for both SFA and SIFST teams who
had worked hard to organise this rare, truly exceptional event.
The response from our members was extremely positive. The
packed agenda for the afternoon included four presentations by
SFA and following by NCFS Lab tours of:
1. Pesticides Residues;
2. Inorganics Contaminants;
3. Food Microbiology;
4. Authenticity and Traceability; and
5. Foodborne and Natural Toxins.
Professor Zhou was invited as one of the plenary speakers at the
conference. The title of his plenary presentation was “Reinventing
Food Engineering to Achieve Global Food Security”. Mr Richard
Khaw and two other postgraduate students from NUS also
presented four oral presentation papers at the conference.
Singapore was represented by Mr Craig D’ Souza for the
Graduate Student’s Research Paper Competition. He presented
his graduate paper on “Comparison between white and red-blue
LED treatments on physiological development and antioxidant
properties of Choy Sum (Brassica rapa var parachinensis)”.
A total of eight student teams participated in the Quiz Bowl
Competition, and the Singapore team was laced 4th position
during the preliminary round.
PROFESSIONAL VISIT TO SINGAPORE FOOD AGENCY –
NATIONAL CENTRE OF FOOD SCIENCE
SIFST has organised a Professional Visit to Singapore Food
A/Prof Joanne Chan, NCFS Centre Director had personally
welcomed the SIFST members, and shared the newly created
SFA organizational structure and their missions to support the
food sectors in Singapore. This was followed by Dr Gerald Chung,
Scientist, Research and Risk Assessment Department, who was
also the SFA coordinator for the visit, had presented the Singapore
Food Story – the three food buckets and grow local foods – and
Singapore Food Story R&D Programme for:
a. Sustainable Urban Food Production
b. Future Foods: Advanced Biotech-based Protein Production
c. Food Safety Science and Innovation
Dr Renuka Selvaraj, Scientist Risk and Situation Reporting, had
shared the Food Hygiene Trends in Food Services from 2008-
2018, and followed by Dr Justina Leo’s, Scientist Virology,
presentation on New Technologies in Microbiology. Dr Leo who had
led the tour for the Food Microbiology lab, had also elaborated the
new automated rapid sampling microbiological tests in the lab.
Photo with Centre Director, A/Prof Chan (front row, 6th from left), Dr Gerald
Chung (back row, 3rd from left), Dr Renuka Selvaraj (front row, 1st from left),
and Dr Justina Leo (front row, 5th from left)
Postgraduate Mr Craig D’ Souza presenting in Graduate Student’s Research
Paper Competition
FOOD & BEVERAGE ASIA DECEMBER 2020 / JANUARY 2021