Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction to Food Quality

    • Defining and identifying quality

    • Overview of food quality

    • Food : Quality, Law and Standards

    • Notes on overview and law and standards

    • Food : Quality and hazards
  • 2

    Quality Control

    • Note for basic construction of control charts

    • Basic construction of control charts

    • Understanding quality control and its differences from quality assurance

    • Basic control chart interpretation

    • Basic quality control procedures

    • Samples of quality tools from students' assignment
  • 3

    Quality Assurance

    • Understanding QA note

    • Understanding Quality Assurance

    • Principles of internal auditing
  • 4

    Quality Management

    • Quality policy

    • Quality objectives

    • Understanding interested parties

    • Understanding risks and opportunities

    • Process and its components

    • Special topic - improvement

    • Special topic - corrective action system

    • Notes on improvement and corrective action system

    • Samples of quality management planning by students
  • 5

    Bonus chapter - samples of assignment instructions

    • Sample of group assignment instruction

    • Sample of individual assignment instruction

Instructor(s)

Azhar Easa

Professor Azhar has been teaching food sciences for the last 25 years. His main research interest is "sustainability-led functional food". He is also actively engaged as a consultant to various industries that manufacture functional foods and beverages.

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