Deadline:21 October 2014
The three-week International course on Governance & food safety in international food chains: Food safety as the guiding principle of your daily work to be held from 9-27 March 2015 is open for applications. The course that empowers participants to manage food safety throughout the value chain includes lectures, individual and group assignments, case studies and field trips.
The participants of the three-week training course will –
- Understand key concepts and elements of national food safety control like risk analysis, integrated approach, risk based monitoring and inspection, enforcement, conducive legislation and policies
- Understand roles and responsibilities of public and private stakeholders
- Identify institutional constraints and options to improve national control systems making use of tools for stakeholder participation and management of institutional change;
- Describe current and emerging food safety hazards and understand how these are translated into risks and control limits
- Translate these options into an action plan, or a curriculum development, training or dissemination program
- Apply concepts like prerequisite programs and HACCP in practice
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can be business, civic society or government professionals engaged in food control systems.
- Applicants must have Masters’ of a professional education and at least three years of professional experience in agri-food chains.
- Applicants must be computer literate.
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