Food safety is an important part of public health. Food safety has already been a major required course for undergraduates and graduates students majoring in preventive medicine field. Food Safety mainly studies various factors that may exist in foods that endangers human health, food safety issues and foodborne diseases, and related preventive measures. Through the course, students can enhance food safety awareness and assist themselves to monitor food safety and protect consumer health that build a foundation for students to engage in public health work in the future.
The Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene was established in 1952 as one of the six earliest departments of Nutrition and Food Hygiene in China. As an applied subject, this subject mainly conducts teaching and scientific research in human nutrition and food hygiene field. With the efforts of several generations, a teaching system and research direction focusing on human nutrition and food hygiene were formed. Simultaneously, nutrition and food hygiene has been the main course of this teaching and research section. All teachers have obtained a doctorate in this major grasping rich teaching and scientific research experience in food safety. The multi-level echelon structure of professors, associate professors, lecturers and other titles has both historical and cultural heritage and innovation of the spirit of the times. In many years of teaching practice, various forms of teaching methods have been carried out, such as case analysis, flipped classroom, seminar-style teaching, small class teaching, PBL teaching model, and food company visiting practice. We also establish a comprehensive experimental course of dietary nutrition evaluation and food Model showroom. We guide students to deal with their own dietary samples and calculation of nutrients, as well as analyzing food safety cases, which tremendously enhance their interest in learning and ability in solving problems independently as well as promoting teaching interaction. This course is quite popular among the students.
