Hygiene and Food Safety

Learning Results

Provide more knowledge about the techniques used in food microbiology for monitoring the safety and quality of foodstuffs;
learn to relate consumer health with changes in food and with the concepts of hygiene and food safety;
know the consequences of poor food hygiene for the health of consumers and businesses
know good hygiene and manufacturing practices.

Program

1. Concept of hygiene and food safety;
2. Evolutionary perspectives of food safety from conception of a product: production, processing, storage,
distribution and final consumption;
3. Emerging food borne diseases and microorganisms;
4. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors that affect food safety;
5. Laboratory research epidemiology of eating disorders;
6. Principles of food hygiene according to the Codex Alimentarius;
7. Cleaning and disinfection programs;
8. Analysis, evaluation and risk communication in food safety;
9. Methodologies for risk management;
10. Food integrated security systems;
11. Identification of biological, chemical and physical hazards;
12. Reactive systems of food safety;
13. Analysis and identification of food safety conditions;
14. Development of food control plans;
15. Food safety pro-active methodologies.

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

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Legislação aplicavel em vigor.