FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY
Are you passionate about science and technology? Do you want to contribute to improving the quality and safety of food? Let's explore the field of Food Quality and Safety - a discipline full of potential and opportunities for growth.
Program Introduction
The Food Quality and Safety major is a newly emerging undergraduate program based on life sciences and food sciences. It studies the relationship between food nutrition, safety, and health, ensuring food nutrition and managing food safety and hygiene quality.
This discipline is an important part of food science and preventive medicine, serving as a crucial bridge between the two. By managing and controlling food production and processing, it ensures the nutritional quality and hygiene of food, promoting human health.
Ensuring food nutrition and safety mainly relies on comprehensive and systematic quality management of food production, expanding from past supervision to include various fields such as food production, food nutrition, food safety, food management, and food quality control. It plays an increasingly important role in various fields of life sciences and food sciences.
Training Objectives
This major adapts to the needs of national economic and technological development, cultivating builders and reliable successors of socialist modernization with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor. Graduates will be able to engage in risk assessment, detection, control, supervision, scientific research, and teaching related to food quality and safety in food production, processing, and circulation.
They will be application-oriented professionals proficient in quality inspection, safety management, and quality control. Graduates with more than five years of experience are expected to:
- Effectively address food safety issues and ensure food quality and safety supervision.
- Play effective leadership, collaboration, and communication roles in formulating regulations and standards, industry market supervision, quality safety systems, research and development of testing technologies, teaching teams, and research teams.
- Possess good professional ethics and social responsibility in food safety evaluation, supervision, law, teaching, and research.
- Expand their knowledge of food safety and their abilities in food quality management and inspection through continuing education or other lifelong learning experiences.
Graduation Requirements
Students must complete the required coursework, pass all necessary exams, earn the required credits, complete a graduation thesis or design, and pass the defense. Specific requirements include:
- Mastering the basic theories and technologies of food science and engineering.
- Being familiar with food laws, regulations, and quality management systems.
- Having the ability to independently conduct food quality and safety testing, analysis, and evaluation.
- Possessing strong scientific research capabilities and innovative spirit.
Core Courses
The core courses of this major include:
- Analytical Chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Microbiology
- Food Chemistry
- Food Technology
- Modern Food Testing Technology
- Principles of Food Engineering
- Food Microbiology Testing
- Food Hygiene
- Food Nutrition
- Food Toxicology
- Food Quality Management
- Food Safety Supervision and Management
- Food Standards and Regulations
- Food Additives
- Food Safety Risk Assessment
- Food Safety Control Technology
Research Directions
The Food Quality and Safety major is based on life sciences and food science and engineering, studying the relationship between food nutrition, safety, and health, focusing on ensuring food nutrition and managing food safety and hygiene quality.
It is an important part of food science and preventive medicine, serving as a crucial bridge between the two. By managing and controlling food production and processing, it ensures the nutritional quality and hygiene of food, promoting human health.
Ensuring food nutrition and safety mainly relies on comprehensive and systematic quality management of food production, expanding from past supervision to include various fields such as food production, food nutrition, food safety, food toxicology, food testing, food supervision, and food quality control. It plays an increasingly important role in various fields of life sciences and food science and engineering.
Degree Awarded
This major has a four-year duration. Students who meet the teaching requirements will be awarded a bachelor's degree in Food Quality and Safety.
Career Development
Graduates can work in administrative and testing institutions of national food quality and safety supervision departments (such as the State Council Food Safety Office, National Health Commission, State Administration for Market Regulation, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, General Administration of Customs, Ministry of Commerce), quality control departments of food enterprises, third-party certification, consulting, and testing institutions.
In the past three years, the postgraduate rate of undergraduates has exceeded 50%, and the employment rate has exceeded 99%, with the number of job positions provided by employers exceeding the number of graduates by more than 17:1.
Employment mainly targets regulatory departments such as the Administration for Industry and Commerce, Market Supervision Administration, Food and Drug Administration, Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, quality inspection/quality control departments of large and medium-sized food production enterprises, and testing centers of research institutions.
Most graduates are employed in economically developed areas such as the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, engaging in risk assessment, detection, control, supervision, scientific research, and teaching related to food quality and safety. In the past three years, the postgraduate rate has been around 40%.
Students can pursue master's or doctoral degrees at well-known universities or research institutions at home and abroad (such as National University of Singapore, University of California, Davis, University of Guelph, University of Leeds, Wageningen University, Imperial College London, Kyushu University, Jiangnan University, China Agricultural University, South China University of Technology, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, etc.).
Related Majors
Related majors include:
- Food Science and Engineering
- Food Nutrition and Inspection Education
- Bioengineering
- Environmental Science
Top Universities Offering Food Quality and Safety Programs in China
- China Agricultural University
- Jiangnan University
- Huazhong Agricultural University
- Nanjing Agricultural University
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
