CGF2100 - Topics on Food Safety (2023)

Objective: To promote a food safety culture among the Pharmacy students. 

Program: Food safety at home, in the industry and in the markets. Food safety initiatives worldwide. Systems for evaluation of food safety and to promote safer foods. Programa The importance of knowledge on food safety for health Professionals. Key concepts for Food Safety. Risk assessment. HACCP - Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points. Food safety from the One Health perspective. 

 Evaluation: The students will receive texts and/or videos to be studied in advance to the classes. The Professor will coordinate the discusion of the topic during the class, and help the students to draw conclusions about the subjects discussed. By the end of each class the students will be asked to prepare a brief abstract about the theme studied. 

Criteria to be approved in the course: the students will have to present abstracts of at least 70% of the topics discussed, with texts that should evidence the understanding about the theme.

Recuperation: not applicable 

Bibliography:

 Bassett, J., Nauta, M., Lindqvist, R., Zwietering, M. Tools For Microbiological Risk Assessment. The ILSI Europe Report Series. 2012. Available at: https://ilsi.eu/publication/tools-for-microbiological-risk-assessment/. Accessed on July 29, 2022. 

European Commision. Food Safety. Available at: https://food.ec.europa.eu/horizontal-topics/farm-fork-strategy_en. Accessed on July 8, 2022. 

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. One Health. Available at: https://www.fao.org/onehealth/en. Accessed on July 8, 2022. 

Shearer, AEH, Kniel, KE. Foodborne Illness Outbreak Investigation for One Health Postsecondary Education. J. Microbiol. Biol. Educ. 22:e00129-21, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00129-21 

World Health Organization. A guide to World Food Safety Day 2022. Available at: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-food-safety-day/2022. Accessed on July 8, 2022. 

World Health Organization. Five Keys to safer food manual. Available at: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241594639. Accessed on July 29, 2022