Skip to main content

Food Legislation and Food Hygiene and Safety (5 cr)

Code: TE00BX91-3001

General information


Enrollment

11.12.2021 - 09.01.2022

Timing

14.02.2022 - 10.03.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Engineering and Business

Teaching languages

  • English

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering

Teachers

  • Eija Kulju
  • Piritta Saipa

Groups

  • PBIOKES19
  • PBIOKES19elintarvike
    PBIOKES19elintarvike

Objective

After finishing this course, the student
• understands what food safety means
• understands the regulations and measurements that ensure the chemical, technological and hygienic quality and safety as well as the legal validity of the food products from farm to fork
• can find the up-to-date food legislation and can apply it him/herself
• Understands the basics of hygiene laboratory analysis at various stages of food production and packaging

Content

• European food legislation and regulations
• Codex alimentarius
• Food hygiene
• Risk assessment and management
• HACCP
• In-house control and control by authorities
• Hygiene analysis of food processing

Evaluation scale

H-5