Master in Food Safety and Food Risk Management
Parma, Italy
MSc
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus, Blended
* non-Italian candidates and candidates holding a non-Italian degree are strongly recommended to request an informal pre-assessment by the Department Admission Board, in order to check if they meet the requirements needed to enroll
* Tuition fees vary on the basis of a proportional tuition fee system: https://en.unipr.it/studying/tuition-fees-and-scholarships-2020-2021
Key Summary
About: The Master in Food Safety and Food Risk Management is a Second Cycle (MSc) programme fully taught in English, offered jointly by the University of Parma with the University of Bologna, Catholic University of Piacenza, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and University of Ferrara. The University of Parma has a thousand-year history and about 30,000 students and 1,739 staff.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work in food safety, risk assessment, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, supply-chain compliance. Typical roles include food safety specialist, risk manager, regulatory affairs officer, food safety auditor or inspector in public agencies, manufacturers, certification bodies, consultancies.
The Master’s Degree in Food Safety and Food Risk Management is a Second Cycle (MSc) Degree Course, fully taught in English, jointly offered by the University of Parma in collaboration with the University of Bologna, Catholic University of Piacenza, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, University of Ferrara.
The Programme
The Master’s Degree in Food Safety and Food Risk Management is offered within the area of Food Sciences and Technologies and is aimed at preparing a Food Safety expert, a specific figure dedicated to risk assessment and management of flood risks, in a modern perspective that includes all the recent acquisitions of all the sciences connected to it, which include not only chemistry, technology, and microbiology of food, but also nutrition, toxicology, law, economics, logistics, mathematics.
The course will be offered with a first common year, at the University of Parma, and in the second year three different curricula in three different universities of the region: Risk Mitigation (Catholic University of Piacenza, in collaboration with the University of Parma), Agri-Food Safety (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia), Risk Management (University of Bologna, in collaboration with the University of Ferrara).
In the first common year, students will learn about risk characterization and exposure assessment in food, food technology, and microbiology as related to safety aspects, which are the biological hazards and the xenobiotics in food, and the hazard identification in primary production, together with elements of food law and international policies, biostatistics, and bioethics.
In the curriculum of Risk Mitigation, students will deepen their knowledge on the modalities of mitigation of risk in food production, the mitigation of process-related toxicants, which are the emerging risks, and about food allergens.
In the curriculum of Agri-Food Safety, students will deepen knowledge on the management of post-harvest diseases, animal pests in stored agri-food products, mycotoxigenic fungi in agri-food, pesticide contamination, together with the use of biotechnology and agronomy for safety and identity preservation of agrifood products.
In the curriculum of Risk Management, students will deepen knowledge in advanced food technology and food process and advanced and predictive food microbiology as a way to manage the risk, together with elements of farm biosecurity and foodborne risk and the risk assessment of food products to human health.
The 2nd semester of the 2nd year will be fully dedicated to the thesis work, under the joint supervision between Universities and food companies, governmental and EU institutions. The degree qualification will be successfully gained after the elaboration and defense of original thesis work and will be officially awarded by the five universities, so it will be valid as a Second Cycle (MSc) degree of University of Parma, Piacenza, Bologna, Modena e Reggio Emilia and Ferrara.
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