Food Safety - Focus area
Food Safety
There is a growing demand for expertise in the area of food safety in order to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages (Sustainable Development Goal 3). Within this focus area, you will obtain general competences in food technology and more specific competences in food safety and quality control.
Curriculum
Polytechnic foundation courses (10 ECTS)
The following courses are mandatory:
| 12100 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) and Spring F3B (Fri 13-17), E7 (Tues 18-22) and Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 42500 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | January |
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| 42504 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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| 42501 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | June |
Students with advanced innovation competences may take one of the following courses as an alternative to 42500/42501/42504:
| 42503 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | June |
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| 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
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| 42502 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | January |
Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)
Innovation course II - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses:
| 23531 | Entrepreneurship in food and bio engineering | 5 | point | August |
| 23552 | Development of innovative future food: Ecotrophelia and Blue Dot course | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 38103 | X-Tech Entrepreneurship | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17), Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
Core competence courses - mandatory (20 ECTS):
| 23101 | Introduction to food production chains | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 23102 | Food safety in production chains | 10 | point | Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
The following courses are proposals for the focus area:
| 23210 | Predictive food microbiology and preservation | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 23272 | Risk analysis in food safety | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 23301 | Practical chemical food analysis | 5 | point | January |
| 23302 | Food chemistry | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 23511 | Food production engineering basics | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 23521 | Hygienic design in the food industry | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 23662 | Introduction to molecular and reproductive toxicology | 5 | point | January |
| 28855 | Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Theoretical version | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
Proposed study plan for Food Safety - Autumn start
Polytechnical foundation
Programme specific courses
Thesis
Electives
1.Semester
2.Semester
3.Semester
Electives
Electives
Electives
5 point
4.Semester
Thesis
Master's Thesis
Master's Thesis
30 point