Certificate of Achievement

Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke

has completed the following course:

Tackling Global Food Safety

Queen's University Belfast

This course explored the issues and challenges to ensuring the safety, authenticity and integrity of global food supplies.

3 weeks, 3 hours per week

Professor Chris Elliott

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Medicine, Health and Life Sciences

Queen's University Belfast

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Explore the threats to human health posed by fraud and the bacterial and chemical contamination of food
  • Examine the various approaches and techniques which can be applied to ensure the authenticity and safety of our food
  • Develop an awareness of the types of hazards which threaten global food supplies and the threats these present to human health
  • Reflect on the challenges posed to food safety and integrity and to human health by the demand to produce more food, and the types of approaches needed to address these challenges

Syllabus

Week 1: Food Fraud and Authenticity

  • The various types of food fraud threatening food integrity
  • Approaches to monitoring food fraud through trace and detection techniques
  • How false claims can be made on labelled products to mislead the consumer

Week 2: What is Food Safety?

• The types of hazards that threaten our food safety

• How food hazards can be monitored and the challenges to preventing their entry into the food chain

• Databases that can be used to search for information on food hazards

• Techniques that can be used to isolate foodborne pathogens from test samples

Week 3: Food Contamination – What is the impact on human health?

• Where food contaminants originate and how they enter our food

• Examples of how food contaminants affect our health

• How biomarkers can be used to determine exposure to dietary contaminants

• Different origins of food contaminants - naturally occurring and production related

Issued on 17th January 2022

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Free online course:

Tackling Global Food Safety

Queen's University Belfast