Food Traceability: Delivering High Quality and Safe Products to the Consumer
In Conjunction with Wiley-Blackwell
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Who Should Attend
This course has been developed for all personnel associated with the food chain. Managers and technologists throughout
the chain need to collaborate before the concepts of food traceability can achieve full potential. The course content may
have more significant impact on professionals associated with Product Quality Assurance, and with specific responsibility for
microbiological safety of food products.
Description
The overall purpose of this 90-minute accredited online course is to assist managers and professionals in the food chain to
gain an appreciation of the technologies available for tracing and monitoring food products and ingredients from a defined
point of origin to the point of consumption. The focus of the course will be on sensors to be used with food products and
the systems available for transmission of information detected by the sensors. Participants in the course will gain sufficient
understanding about hardware and systems to evaluate potential applications in their operations.
Module 1: Food Traceability
• Background
• Current status
• Description of currently available technologies
Module 2: Status of Food Traceability on the Food Chain
• Demonstration of successful applications
• The role of regulatory agencies
Module 3: The Future of Food Traceability
• Economic constraints
• Other challenges associated with applications of current
technologies
Question and Answer Session