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MN301402 Quality Management and HACCP

Course Code
MN301402

Course Name
Quality Management and HACCP

Credits
0.00

Target Audience
3.rd year Bachelor of Aquaculture and Food Processing.

Prerequisites

Microbiology and hygiene, Food Chemistry and Nutrition, Food Technology I

Objectives

On giving a profit perspective of Quality management, and enable the student to plan and execute processing within a Quality system in the fish processing industry. Further, to give the students knowledge on safety of foods, and enable the student to maintain and operate HACCP systems.

Topics

 Quality terms
 Quality in the project stage
 Quality and purchase
 Quality during manufacturing
 Quality in and after sales
 Quality Control
 Certification and maintenance of Q systems
 Environmental Certifications (EMAS, ISO, etc.)
 Risk management and documentation
 Statistics in manufacture management
 Sampling plans in the Quality Control
 Organising QA and HACCP systems, What and Why?
 Preparation for HACCP
 Development of safe products and services
 How to do a HACCP study
 How to implement and maintain a HACCP system
 Quality Assurance in food manufacture
 Codex Allimentarius
 Consumer Safety in the European Union
 HACCP requirements in the Norwegian Fisheries Legislation
 HACCP and ISO interrelations

Instruction

Lectures, demonstrations and practice in the laboratory

Mandatory Assignments

Passed reports and exercises (no grade inferior of E) are mandatory to admission to the examination.

Evaluation

Portfolio evaluation 40%, oral examination, 50%.

Grades
Number grades, 1,0 to 6,0 where numbers greater than 4,0 represent Failure.

Revised date
2006.06.16