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University of Leeds

Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health

University of Leeds via FutureLearn

Overview

Enhance your knowledge of global food safety and nutrition issues

Food security is reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, safe, and nutritious food.

On this three week course, you’ll learn some of the challenges of ensuring food security faced by researchers, policymakers and individuals worldwide.

Understand food safety and nutrition issues and why they occur on a global scale

You’ll explore how large-scale change (industrialisation, globalisation, population growth and climate change) affects food safety and understand the consequences for the world’s health and nutrition.

Uncover the evolving challenges of ensuring food safety

Using examples from current research, you’ll explore common and emerging global food safety issues.

You’ll investigate some well- documented food scandals and scares as well as hidden or chronic exposures to contaminated food before you discover innovations designed to counter food safety risks.

Explore today’s pressing global nutrition issues

As you consider whose responsibility it is to maintain the safety of our food, you’ll learn the biological function of different nutrients and examine the global impact of nutrient deficiency and malnutrition.

You’ll also explore global nutrition challenges and ways of reducing the burden of malnutrition and nutrition deficiencies. You’ll consider the difficulties in meeting macronutrient and micronutrient requirements and explore research into developing sustainable responses to the world’s nutritional needs.

Learn from industry experts

This course draws from innovative research into food safety and nutrition conducted by the University of Leeds, Jiangsu University in China, and The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Tanzania.

This course is financially supported by the British Council.

This course is designed to educate and train the next generation of scientists in food safety, nutrition, and agriculture and broaden public awareness of food security issues.

Syllabus

  • Introducing global food security: Safety and nutrition
    • Welcome
    • How do we keep the world’s food safe?
    • How do we define nutrients and nutrient requirements?
    • How are food safety and nutrition connected?
    • Summary
  • Global food safety: Challenges and solutions
    • About Week 2
    • What are the global challenges to food safety?
    • Global food scares and scandals
    • Hidden global challenges and chronic exposures
    • Summary
  • Global nutrition: Challenges and solutions
    • Welcome to Week 3
    • What are the global challenges in food and health?
    • Macronutrients: A question of quality and balance
    • Micronutrient deficiency: Solutions to a global challenge
    • Summary

Taught by

Yun Yun Gong

Reviews

4.5 rating, based on 11 Class Central reviews

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  • Anonymous
    Very well elaborated link between Food safety and nutrition, the food safety and nutrition challenges in a rapidly growing world population and how we can approach these challenges to achieve health and wellbeing. Excellent!
  • This was a fabulous course and really brought together many issues about nutrition, sustainability, and safety to address public health strategies. There are many excellent case studies well-chosen to illustrate the points. I am very glad I did this course!
  • Anonymous
    It was a useful cours, specialy when we think about the link between the following elements:

    Climate change

    Biodiversity

    Conservation agriculture

    Food safety (aflatoxin control) and nutrition

    Soil and seeds

    Agroecology

    Farming practices

    Postharvest handling

    And regarding to the link between diet, nutrition, food safety, and the health outcomes of populations. This is conducted in the context of climate change and biodiversity.

    All the best,
  • Susan Thompson
    This was a very informative course. I learned a lot. It was very clear about many nutrition challenges. It also explained the interconnected nature of the solutions to meet these challenges and provide everyone with safe food. I appreciated the opportunities to read around the subjects. A few of the links did not work but I looked them up separately. I think the approach to offering comments needs a rethink if it’s considered important to provide an opportunity for discussion.
  • Anonymous
    Very interesting course with a LOT of reading - time to read should not be underestimated. It would be good to have video recordings used much more to use all senses in learning process (not only reading, but also listening). Eye opening knowledge to some of the basic food safety issues.
  • Anonymous
    A very insightful and enlightening course. I learnt a lot about nutrition, health and the WIDE FOOD sector

    Thank you
  • Anonymous
    The is a short but interesting course. It is educative as well as informative, and in this short while I can boldly say I have achieved a lot as my eyes have become more opened to various problem associated with food nutrition, food safety and food security. Also, likely solutions has been suggested to help face these issues globally. Furthermore, the contribution of each learner cannot be overemphasized. In conclusion, this course is an eye opener and I want to appreciate the educators for their impartation and time.
  • Khaoula ALAMI
    The course about Food Safety and Nutrition was so interesting , as an engineer in Agri-food field , this course helped me to boost my knowledge and updating my informations about nutrition and food safety challenges . It provides me an insight into how research, development and innovation are key to solving problems, both in the short- and long term.
  • Anonymous
    It's a valuabel course for me and I am working for FDA, Myanmar to secure food safety and hygiene as much as I can. This course really euips me a more skillful technicial person in my job, and if I have a chance or selected me, I want to learn my master course related food at there.
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    Meriem Bensaoua
    I really enjoyed while taking the course, learned a lot of things that added to my background in food industry. A variety of subjects was covered in a great way. I'm glad I took it and I would highly recommend it to those who are interested in food industry and nutrition
  • Sameera Samreen Hashmi
    Interesting n valuable course except few things which is not acceptable but is informative and to talk about in post is helpful in many ways

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