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School of Industrial Technology

Associate Professor Dr. Tan Thuan Chew

"Compliance is not an option. It is essential."

Expertise: 

  1. Food and Beverage Law
  2. Food Chemistry
  3. Functional Food
  4. Thermal and Non-Thermal Food Processing Technology

Dr. Tan Thuan Chew gives lectures on food processing, food regulations, functional foods, and food defense. His research focuses on alternative proteins, kinetic study, and beverage technology. He provides consultancy on food regulations and thermal processing. His initial research passion started with coconut water. He has worked with Tetra Pak Southeast Asia in developing their Coconut Knowledge Centre through consultation and research. He is one of the academic advisors for the Community Innovation Centre, USM, providing technical advice and support to local community entrepreneurs on coconut water processing. Since early 2019, Dr. Tan is active in food security. He is the technical advisor for the Foodbank Retort Ready-to-Eat Food project under Yayasan Foodbank Negara. This project focuses on saving excessive food from hotels and converting it into retort foods for the underprivileged and for emergency use. In addition, his latest research project is to study the health functionalities of proteins and bioactive peptides derived from locusts. Finally, he is an HRDC accrediated trainer and actively engages in conducting public and in-house training on food regulations, labelling, and food additives for food industries.

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