FST3862 - Food safety and quality management

Overview

This unit focuses on food quality and safety management in food production. You will study the principle of quality assurance in the food industry as well as quality management systems and their certification for an organization. Along the way, you will also discuss the statistical quality and process control methods in quality assurance as well as in food standard legislation, ISO quality standards and Halal food production. You will also learn Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles and food safety hazards and their application for the development of a HACCP plan in a food industry.

Offerings

S2-01-MALAYSIA-ON-CAMPUS

Requisites

Prerequisite

Contacts

Chief Examiner(s)

Dr Thoo Yin Yin

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Thoo Yin Yin

Teaching approach

Active learning

Lectures provide in-depth exploration of key food safety and quality management principles and an opportunity for students to interact with engaging questions. All the objectives will be addressed in the lectures.

Tutorials are designed to provide practice in using concepts. A range of activities is provided to develop conceptual understanding, strengthen problem solving and multimedia communication skills.

Assessment

1 - Quizzes/presentations

2 - Assignments

3 - Examination (3 hours and 10 minutes)

Scheduled and non-scheduled teaching activities

Lectures

Tutorials

Workload requirements

Workload

Learning resources

Recommended resources

1. Riaz, M.N. and Chaudry, M.M. (2004). Halal food production, CRC Press LLC. ISBN: 1-58716-029-3

2. Schmidt, R.H. and Rodrick, G.E. (2005). Food Safety handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc

3. Andres Vasconcellos J. (2005). Quality Assurance for the Food industry - A practical approach. CRC press.

4. Inteaz Alli. (2004). Food quality assurance - Principles & practices. CRC Press. New York.

5. Sara Mortimore and Carol Wallace. (2013). HACCP - A practical approach. Third edition. Chapman and Hall, London.

6. Neal D. Fortin. (2017). Food regulation: law, science, policy and practices, Wiley Publishers.