Advanced Food Hygiene

Advanced Food Hygiene

Who is this course for?
Senior personnel in the food industry responsible for the management of food hygiene issues. Those who wish to obtain a technical qualification to advise on a range of food hygiene issues and become a registered tutor for various hygiene courses.

What will I learn?
General introduction to food hygiene and safety; Bacteriology; Food poisoning and food borne disease; Non Bacterial food poisoning; Physical contamination of food and its prevention; Food storage and temperature control; Food preservation; Design and construction of food premises; Design of equipment; Cleaning and disinfect ion; Pest control; Personal hygiene; Education and training of food handlers; Legislation; Management control techniques.Successful candidates will be able to contributae to the management of hygiene in a wide variety of food businesses. Determine good practice, promote and encourage good standards of food safety, Determine further training requirements, Liase with enforcement officers.

Assessment
2 x ½ hour examination which represents 50% of the final grade. 2 Course assignments represents the other 50%.

On Completion Achievement / Progression
You will be able to manage food safety efficiently and to the standard required by law. You will be able to introduce auditing and monitoring programmes and develop hygiene practices and procedures, knowledge of recent legislation will assist with the liasing with the enforcement officers. Subject to approval, you can register as tutors for various hygiene courses, give staff training and establish hazard analysis projects.