This postgraduate course provides relevant, up-to-date experience of food safety management, which is of vital importance both to organisations and individuals in the food industry, enforcement and education. MSc Food Safety Management focuses on the important areas of foodborne disease, food safety hazards and the effective management of food safety through application of the risk management system Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP). An online course, Food Safety Management provides learning units and support materials via a secure website. This includes individual and group activities, including live web-seminars, research tasks and case studies provide practical learning opportunities.
Recognised first degree or equivalent, professional qualification, or experience in a food related field, or NVQ level 5, and a suitable level of proficiency in relation to IT.
Students on this course are normally working full-time or part-time in and/or go on to develop their careers in the food industry, local government and the private sector.
This course provides progression opportunities up to MPhil/PhD and DProf.
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