Why open this course？
· The GDP of China food industry reached 12,900 billion RMB in 2018 from 300 in 2008, with increased 43 fold. Such a huge industry makes a great challenge to food safety manager, food supervisor and our consumers. For governmental staff, effective and assurance are big challenges as food processing and food production chain is very complicated. For consumers, choosing and purchasing a safe food product from such a wide varieties are also a big challenge as it is hard for general people to see if the chosen food is real safe. This course will tell you how to scientifically supervise food safety in such a huge industry and chose safe food smartly in the complicated market.
What main topic?
· This course will focus on differentiation of food safety, food quality, and food defense in terms of hazard source, characteristics and risk, identification and determination, prevention and control. Therefore, limited staff is able to focus on food safety issue supervision and make it effectively.
What benefit?
· Governmental staff can use the learned scientific knowledge to effectively manage food safety and prevent or mitigate food safety incidents. Consumers are able to use the learned knowledge to tell health problems resulting from food-borne hazards and also choose the real safe food products for consumption and also avoid following some social rumors on food.
What course uniqueness?
· An international experienced professional team for lectures is uniqueness of this course. Students are able to interact and communicate with them both on-line and off-line in food safety issues.
Course target
The target of this course is to learn the differentiation of food safety and food quality, food safety and food security, food safety and food defense (terrorism) and understand the critical control points (CCP) of food-borne hazard in particular the invisible hazards for effective food safety management and supervision.
