Department of Food Science

VC live address to students and members of staff. 

The VC Prof. S. G. Kiama addresses students  and staff  live for the first time on June 12, 2020 after his installation as a the eigth vice chancellor of the university of Nairobi in June 5, 2020. 

Written by Sarah Cherere Obara 

In biology, immunity is the balanced state of multicellular organisms having adequate biological defenses to fight infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion, while having adequate tolerance to avoid allergy, and autoimmune diseases. Supplementation is the use of pills or special types of food in order to improve your health.

The workshop was held at the Diakonia Resort Conference Center Hall. The session began at 9:00 a.m. led by Dr. George Abong’ who is the coordinator of the project from the University of Nairobi. Formal introductions were done by the participants to the project team thereafter, the participants were briefed on the workshop materials. The training focused on the following:

Following the EMS ISO 14001:2015 Implementers training held in Nairobi under Switch Africa Green Project titled, ‘Inclusive Green Horticulture Processing Sector in Kenya’, Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and the University of Nairobi defined the criteria for selection MSMEs, to be trained on EMS Internal Audit in readiness for Environmental management systems (EMS) certification.

The opening session was graced by the Deputy President of Kenya, HE. Dr William Ruto. Dr Abong who is a member of the Codex regional organizing committee has been actively involved in standards development in which he chairs and is a member of several technical committees at the Kenya Bureau of Standards. He also represented the Food Science and Technology Platform of Kenya (FoSTeP-K) being the current chairman.