FPEN 712: Food Safety, Traceability and Competitiveness

The course will allow students to sharpen skills on the current issues on food safety, food regulations and traceability. The impact of engineering process and product design on food safety and traceability and applications within the Ghanaian context. Students will learn about current issues of concern in national and international agencies involved with food safety. These include Codex Alimentarius Commission; WTO, OIE, GlobalGAP, etc. International Code of practice, general principles of food hygiene as applied to different foods. Development, establishment and monitoring of traceability systems.