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Give us this day our daily hand sanitiser made from bread

Not many people would look at a bag of stale bread and think: “I could make hand sanitiser out of that.”

Wendy Knowler

Wendy Knowler

Consumer journalist

The stale bread is in the process of producing alcohol in a fermentation tank in Stellenbosch University’s food science department.
The stale bread is in the process of producing alcohol in a fermentation tank in Stellenbosch University’s food science department. (Wendy Knowler)

Not many people would look at a bag of stale bread and think: “I could make hand sanitiser out of that.” 

But that’s exactly what scientists at Stellenbosch University’s food science department have done.

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