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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
Hygiene and Safety in Microbiology - B319006
Title: Hygiena a bezpečnost v mikrobiologii
Guaranteed by: Department of Biotechnology (319)
Faculty: Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:3
E-Credits: winter s.:3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: http://www.vscht.cz/kch/kestazeni/sylaby/hygiena.pdf
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Patáková Petra prof. Dr. Ing.
Interchangeability : AB319006, N319033
Is interchangeable with: AB319006
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
The study of this object is focused on understanding of management quality control systems and safety of products in food and pharmaceutical industries. Further, it makes students familiar with performance of risk assesment, keeping of safety work standards in laboratories of different types and control methods used for determination of microorganisms.
Last update: Patáková Petra (17.09.2023)
Aim of the course -

Student will be able to:

Understand the problematics given by the sylabus.

Find information on management system of quality control and safety of food and pharmaceutical products.

Last update: Patáková Petra (17.09.2023)
Literature -

Obligatory:

  • Food safety for the 21st century, managing HACCP and food safety throughout the global supply chain, Wallace, Carol, Sperber, William H., Mortimore, Sara
  • Risk assessment, theory, methods, and applications, Rausand, Marvin, Haugen, Stein
  • Microbial food safety and preservation techniques, Rai, V. Ravishankar, Bai, Jamuna A.

Recommended:

  • Case studies in food safety and authenticity, lessons from real-life situations, Hoorfar, J., 2012
  • Advances in microbial food safety, Juneja, Vijay K., Cherry, John P., Tunick, Michael, 2006

Last update: Patáková Petra (21.08.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Work in microbiological laboratory, safety, personal hygiene and organization of work; requirements for laboratory equipment regarding handling miccoroganisms from different safety classes

2. Good laboratory practice, acreditation of microbiological laboratory, sampling for microbiological analyses.

3. Occurance of pathogens and toxins in food, water and other materials

4. Determination of total microbial number (TPC, APC, MPN ), indicator microorganisms and pathogens. Classical cultivation techniques and systems of rapid detection.

5. Desinfectants in biotechnology, surface hygiene, determination of microorganisms in air.

6. Removal of microorganisms from environment, sterilization, pasteurization, irradiation and other techniques.

7. Differences regarding production of food, drugs, food supplements and novel type food.

8.Predictive microbiology, GRAS miccrogoranisms and compounds, transport of microbial samples.

9. Construction of ideal plant, process hygiene.

10. HACCP in food industry, risk analysis.

11. Good manufacturing practice in pharmaceutical and food industry.

12. System of ISO norms- 9000 and 22000 iso norms sets

13. Work with GMO, GMO classification, legislation

14. EU legislation regarding food and pharmaceutical industry

Last update: Patáková Petra (17.09.2023)
Learning resources -

http://www.oecd.org/env/chemicalsafetyandbiosafety/testingofchemicals/linkstonationalwebsitesongoodlaboratorypractice.htm

https://www.vha.com/Solutions/performanceimprovement/HAI/Documents/shea_guidelines_hand_hygiene.pdf

http://pmp.arserrc.gov/PMPOnline.aspx

http://www.ifr.ac.uk/Safety/GrowthPredictor/default.html

http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/labellingnutrition/supplements/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/health/files/eudralex/vol-4/vol4-chap1_2012-06_en.pdf

http://www.iso.org/iso/home.html

Last update: Patáková Petra (17.09.2023)
Registration requirements -

Microbiology

Last update: Patáková Petra (17.09.2023)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Konzultace s vyučujícími 0.1 4
Obhajoba individuálního projektu 0.1 4
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Práce na individuálním projektu 0.6 18
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1.1 30
3 / 3 84 / 84
 
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