COURSE OVERVIEW

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of emerging issues in food safety. It covers the systematic approach to learning how to understand and address some of the major complex issues that have emerged in the food industry. The course provides a foundation for a practical understanding in food safety initiatives and safety rules, how to deal with whole-chain traceability issues, handling complex computer systems and data, foodborne pathogen detection, production and processing compliance issues, safety education and more.
Further, this course will also discuss the food safety tracking and traceability through proper implementation and perspective of global food safety initiative; the application of computer systems for whole-chain traceability in beef production systems and tracking pathogens in the environment; the molecular methods for traceability of foodborne pathogens in food safety systems and descriptive tool for tracing microbiological contaminations; the new strategies for studying foodborne pathogen ecology; the salmonella potential role methods to develop microbial process indicators on chicken carcasses, salmonella control in food production and current issues and perspective in the United States; listeria and omics approaches for understanding its biology; and the current issues in foodborne illness caused by staphylococcus aureus.