Master on Food Safety

The Master study programme in Food Safety (MFS) aims to assure a high-level training in the agri-food area, based on technical knowledge and sustained by scientific investigation, innovation and development. Accordingly, it is intended that the students of the Master’s programme acquire the following capabilities:

To carry out functions in the area of food quality, especially in food safety;

To join in multidisciplinary professional teams;

To communicate with technicians and other staff of the food sector with different educational backgrounds and levels of knowledge;

To understand and to analyze the issues associated with the production and transformation of food which influence its safety and quality;

To plan, implement and validate food safety pro-active systems;

To apply technological and management options and restrictions in order to attain determined levels of quality set by food producing organizations;

To identify, analyze and evaluate safety and quality problems in a food producing organization according to national and community legal requirements;

To assess and improve quality control and safety processes taking in to account environmental management issues;