Skills

  • food microbiology
  • Food Analysis
  • Quality Assurance
  • food safety

Experience

Peris Maina

Education
  • Duties being but not limited to:
  • Developing food products such as wine, jams, candies and juices from indigenous fruits such as Sclerocarya birrea, Syzygium, Guava, Goose Berries e.t.c
  • Extract Flavor from indigenous forest fruits.
  • Extract food color from indigenous forest fruits

Peris Maina

Education
  • August, 2020 - December, 2020
  • Fulltime
  • Duties being but not limited to:
  • Ensuring food safety by conducting aflatoxin analysis in maize.
  • Conducting soil analysis for ph. Macro and micro nutrients
  • Performing DNA extraction in plants, bacteria and fungi.
  • Conducting polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis.
  • Performing a Gel Electrophoresis and Observation.
  • Media Preparation for culturing microorganisms in the laboratory

Peris Maina

Work experience
  • October, 2019 - February, 2020
  • Parttime
  • Practical experience gained:
  • Food preservation.
  • Food concentration.
  • Food canning.
  • Spice milling.
  • Experience gained in the Quality department:
  • Hazard Analysis and Critical Control points.
  • Quality management systems where I cooperated with operations and quality to monitor daily production and maintain product quality
  • Microbial analysis of food to identify and restrict harmful microorganisms to ensure safety

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