Food Technology and Safety

Cycle

Segundo ciclo

Degree

Mestre

Coordinator

Benilde Simões Mendes

Opening date

September

Vacancies

35 vagas

Fees

1065,72 Euros

Schedule

"Compressed" schedule - a day and a half per week (thursday afternoon, friday full day) and After Working Hours schedule.

Education objectives

Food production has become, in many circumstances, an act so industrialized as possible, worrying those responsible with the more quantitative aspects of the process than with product quality. The complexity of food chains is increasing, resulting in many interactions which may be the basis of risks to consumers, whose control will thus become more difficult. Food Security so requires an integrated and responsible approach, which stretches from production to consumers in a manner consistent, effective and dynamic. 

Skills:

• To assess the quality of the food value, either raw or processed products, so as to contribute thereby to ensure, together with other technicians, security of food consumption and health;
• To intervene in the productive processes of the food industries, seeking to optimize the process itself and minimize the environmental impacts arising from it;
• Adequate training to the design of new products, food and others, and the reformulation of current products;
• To intervene in the processes of standardization and certification of products and systems for production and processing of products and raw food;
• Management of emissions, effluents and wastes and other disorders arising in processes of production, processing and distribution in food industries. 

Careers 

Level of production, quality control and food security in agro-food industries and to develop new products or improve existing ones. Tasks of research and development and consulting services in Technology and / or Food Safety.

Degree pre-requisites

Duration: 2 years

Credits: 120 ECTS

Mandatory scientifc areas

Scientific Area	Acronym	ECTS
		Mandatory	Optional
Food Technology	TA	33	-
Food Safety	SA	15	-
Chemistry	Q	12	-
Food Quality	QA	6	-
Chemical Engineering	EQ	3	-
Food Technology / Food Safety / Chemistry / Food Quality / Chemical Engineering	TA / SA / Q / QA / EQ	42	-
Transferable Skills	CC	3	-
Any Scientific Area	QAC	-	6 a)
TOTAL		114	6

a) 6 ECTS in courses chosen by the student on a list approved annually by the Scientific Council of FCT / UNL, which includes the unity of all scientific areas of FCT / UNL

Access to other courses

Access to third cycles (PhD Programs).

Evaluation rules

The evaluation is done according the Regulamento de Avaliação de Conhecimentos da FCT (Despacho 34/2012). 

The curricular units (UC) predicted a format of continous assessment, wich will include  a minimum of three evaluation times, distributed along the semesters and that will be concluded till the end of teaching classrooms. The evaluation of UCs of the Insert Period is regulated by a separated decision of the Executive Council of FCT.

Appeal Exam.

The UC Master Dissertation comprises a public presentation and discussion of the dissertation work.

Structure

1.º Semester
Code	Name	ECTS
10750	Food Analysis	6.0
10753	Fundamentals of Food Engineering	3.0
10751	Biological Indicators on Agro Industrial Quality	6.0
7895	Legislation and Consumer Protection	3.0
10752	Nutrition	6.0
10749	Food Chemistry and Biochemistry	6.0

2.º Semester
Code	Name	ECTS
10757	Food Packaging	3.0
10755	Food Preservation	6.0
11128	Entrepreneurship	3.0
10756	Food Quality I	6.0
10754	Food Toxicology	6.0

2.º Semester - Unidade Curricular de Bloco Livre
Code	Name	ECTS
Options
11066	Electives	6.0
O aluno deverá obter 6.0 créditos nesta opção.

2.º Year
Code	Name	ECTS
8910	Master Thesis on Technology and Food Safety	42.0

3.º Semester
Code	Name	ECTS
10760	Food Industries	6.0
10761	Food Quality II	6.0
10762	Management Systems for Food Security	6.0