PRESENTED BY: STEVE D AFULENI
COUNTRY REPORT ON CHEMISTRY ACTIVITIES
IN MALAWI
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All of us here are putting on cloths in different colours. The chemist had to do some mixing here to form the different dyes
The gasoline you use to operate your car was formulated by petroleum
chemists, to give it the best possible operating properties
Everything we do is
chemistry!
Pharmaceutical Co.
Oil refinery plantCloth manufacturing
Food processing
Bodies Involved in Chemistry Activities in MalawiMalawi Bureau Of Standards (MBS)The Association Of Professional Chemists and Chemical Engineers Of Malawi (APCCEM)Learning institutions such as universities, colleges and secondary schoolsIndustry at large
ESTABLISHMENT AND MANDATE OF MBSStatutory organization established in 1972 by an Act of Parliament (Cap 51:02) of the Laws of Malawi.Established with a mandate to promote standardization of commodities and of their manufacture, production, processing or treatment; and further to provide for matters incidental to, or connected with standardization.
DepartmentsStandards DevelopmentQuality Assurance ServicesTechnical ServicesTrade and Industrial MetrologyFinance and Administration
ActivitiesStandards Development Import & Export Quality MonitoringCertificationConsumer Compliant HandlingTrade Metrology ServicesTesting ServicesIndustrial Research and Consultancy
Testing ServicesProvided by the Technical Services Department.Provided to most organizations that do not have their own test facilities, to clients requiring an independent analysis or opinion, and to internal programs for verification of compliance to standards.
Testing services provided in the following areasGeneral ChemistryFood ChemistryPharmaceuticals PetrochemicalsPesticide residues and formulationsRadiochemistryMicrobiologyEngineering and materials
Kjeldahl apparatus for digestion of samples for the determination of nitrogen content
General chemistry laboratory
Pesticides Laboratory
Determination of Pesticide formulations and residuesGC GC-MS
The Association of Professional Chemists and Chemical Engineers of Malawi (APCCEM)One of the major outputs of the dialogue between the Chemistry Department (University of Malawi) and the Chemical Industries.Formed in April, 2001 to foster partnership and cooperation between the Universities and industry in order to enhance the quality and relevance of chemistry and chemical engineering professions in Malawi.
To promote the advancement of chemistry and chemical engineering as branches of science and technology and their application in agriculture, process manufacturing, environment, nutrition, medicine and health for the socio‐economic development of the Malawi nation.
Mission of APCCEM
Concluding RemarksIn Malawi, Chemistry is the basis of all science since it is the matter around which society, industry and development revolves.Development of chemistry over the decades has had a direct impact on social economic development and the growth of Industry.It is therefore fitting that industry and users of chemistry come together occasionally to take stock of the development of the profession
THANK YOU!
ZIKOMO!