2017 Regional Starch Conference
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Director General in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Vivian Brown observing the Wet Extraction Process for Cassava Starch being displayed at the 2017 Regional Starch Conference held at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Regional Headquarters, Mona, on Thursday, March 23, 2017. At left is Senior Quality Analyst – Local Raw Materials, Red Stripe Limited, Tayna Kemble-Darby. The two-day conference scheduled for March 23-24 was organized by the Bureau of standards Jamaica (BSJ) under the theme: “Indigenous Caribbean Starch Products: Back to the Future.”
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