Courses 2012

Food Safety

ORGANISATION

The two-week course will be held in Summer School Almere, organized by CAH Almere University of applied Sciences.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

For food companies certain norms and standards have become a necessity. This necessity can be caused by several reasons as: marketing, gaining trust of the consumer, motivating employees, etc. The company would like to prove that they invested in development, implementation and maintenance of quality management systems. Companies developed HACCP systems, BRC, IFS, GlobalGAP, etc. A comprehensive risk assessment and risk management has to be executed.
Certification is an act, with which will be proved that there is a justified trust that the product meets a norm, a standard or another normative document. This conformity will be conformed with an officially registered document: the certificate.
The act needed to demonstrate the proof of the conformity is called the audit. The audit is a systematic, autonomous and well-documented process, aimed at obtaining audit evidence and confirmation, and the objective evaluation against audit criteria

COURSE DIRECTOR

Ing Ms. O Kujawska

TARGET GROUP

The food safety summer school aims at developing specialist in food safety auditing in 2 weeks. The program includes a very intensive training and combines several approaches: interactive lectures, literature study and excursions. The goal is developing knowledge and competences on the field of quality and food safety and increasing awareness on several perspectives.

COURSE AIM

The course is designed for professionals and students who are dealing with food, food quality and food safety in their daily work. This can be from the point of view of a governmental position, worker in the food sector or someone who is dealing with distribution of food and will have a close relation with consumers.

COURSE METHODOLOGY

Class sessions will be primarily focussed on lectures, best practices and class discussions. Student participation in class discussions is an integral part of the class and it is therefore expected of every student. Students are encouraged to ask questions, actively participate in discussions, and comment on reading and lecture materials. Moreover they are expected to have completed all assigned readings prior to each class in order to actively participate in class discussion.

PERIOD
02-07-2012 - 13-07-2012 (2 weeks)

CREDITS

Standard: 2.0 ECTS credits + Certificate of Attendance

FEE

» Course Fee: € 500 ,- including course materials and excursions
» Accommodation Fee Almere: € 120,- per week

MORE INFORMATION

Ing. Ms. O Kujawaska
o.kujawska@cah.nl

SCHOLARSHIPS

Summer School Almere doesn't offer scholarships for this course.

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION

15 May 2012

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CAH Dronten University of Applied Sciences (CAH DUAS), member of the Association of Professional Universities in Agriculture, is situated in the centre of the Netherlands. In this reclaimed area, the Polder province of Flevoland, professionals prepare for their careers in the knowledge domains of Food Production, Trade and Logistics, Leisure and Animal Management, and The Rural and Urban Environments.

About 1,300 Dutch students specialise in programmes on Business Administration and the Agribusiness, Rural development, Animal Production and Management, Horticulture and Arable Production, with professional profiles ranging from Real Estate Brokerage via Equine Studies through International Agriculture.

The international courses are just as varied, with yearly about 200 students arriving from many countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. The English-language degree courses train for Chain Management, Agribusiness, EU Studies and Structural Funds Management, as well as technological studies in Biotechnology, Horticulture and Animal Science. The degrees are offered in close co-operation with businesses, universities and research institutes throughout Europe and the US.

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