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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
Chemical Food Safety - M323001
Title: Chemická bezpečnost potravin
Guaranteed by: Department of Food Analysis and Nutrition (323)
Faculty: Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:5
E-Credits: winter s.:5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications: Expertise, Interdisciplinarity, Independence
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Pulkrabová Jana prof. Ing. Ph.D.
Hajšlová Jana prof. Ing. CSc.
Interchangeability : AM323001, N323012, N323012A
Is interchangeable with: AM323001
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
The course provides a comprehensive summary of information concerning chemical food safety, with an emphasis on current problems. Attention is paid to hazardous food components that originate during food processing from common precursors, food additives and contaminants of various origins, i.e. from the environment, agricultural practices or from food contacts materials. For each group of contaminants, physico-chemical and toxicological aspects are discussed, attention is focused on the possibilities of consumers´ protection and on minimisation of dietary exposure to these pollutants.
Last update: Pulkrabová Jana (28.01.2018)
Course completion requirements -

Semestral project.

Successful completion of written and oral exams.

Last update: Pulkrabová Jana (24.01.2018)
Literature -

Obligatory:

  • Velíšek, Jan, Hajšlová, Jana. Chemie potravin. Tábor: OSSIS, 2009, 2 sv. s. ISBN 978-80-86659-15-2.
  • Velíšek, Jan. The Chemistry of food. Chichester: Wiley, 2014, viii, 1113 s. s. ISBN 978-1-118-38381-0.

Recommended:

  • Chawla, Malvika, Singh, Jaspal, Kaushik, R. D.. Hazardous chemicals, overview, toxicological profile, challenges, and future perspectives. : , , xxi, 840 stran s. ISBN 978-0-323-95235-4.
  • Avino, Pasquale, Di Fiore, Cristina, Farris, Stefano. Microplastics in agriculture and food science, methods for identification and remediation. : , , xix, 478 stran s. ISBN 978-0-443-22210-8.
  • Watson, David H.. Food chemical safety.. Boca Raton: Woodhead Publ., 2002, 308 s. s. ISBN 1-85573-563-6.
  • Motarjemi, Yasmine, Moy, Gerald, Todd, E. C. D.. Encyclopedia of food safety. Amsterdam: Academic Press, 2014, 4 sv. s. ISBN 978-0-12-378612-8.

Last update: Pulkrabová Jana (26.09.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

Within the extent of the syllabus.

Last update: Pulkrabová Jana (24.01.2018)
Syllabus -

1. Chemical safety of food – definition of terms, legislative framework, and overview of the main groups of hazardous substances

2. Characteristics of contaminants in food, their properties, and routes of entry into the food chain

3. Persistent organic pollutants – main groups and legislative aspects (Stockholm Convention)

4. New environmental contaminants, microplastics; main groups and legislative aspects

5. Principles of green chemistry and their application in the food industry – objectives, strategies, and impacts on the chemical safety of food

6. Chemical substances released from materials intended to come into contact with food

7. Substances arising during food production – process contaminants, main groups, and legislative aspects

8. Mycotoxins and other natural toxins – main groups and legislative aspects

9. Natural toxic substances – main groups and legislative aspects

10. Modern pesticides and veterinary drugs: main groups, legislative aspects, and strategies for reducing the use of synthetic pesticides in favor of natural alternatives

11. Toxic metals and nitrates – main groups and legislative aspects

12. Food additives – main groups, legislative aspects, and the E-code system

13-14. Chemical contaminants in selected food commodities (cereals, legumes, fruit, vegetables) – main groups and legislative aspects, case studies

Last update: Pulkrabová Jana (26.09.2025)
Learning resources -

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/cs/index.htm

http://www.who.int/en/

http://www.bezpecnostpotravin.cz/

Last update: Fialová Jana (19.12.2017)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

  • assess chemical food safety.
  • design procedures to eliminate the possibility of undesirable substances in food during food processing and storage.
  • design ways to reduce exposure of human population to xenobiotics from the diet.
Last update: Pulkrabová Jana (28.01.2018)
Registration requirements -

Food Chemistry

Last update: Pulkrabová Jana (24.01.2018)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Konzultace s vyučujícími 0.5 14
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Práce na individuálním projektu 1.5 42
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1.5 42
Účast na seminářích 0.5 14
5 / 5 140 / 140
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Oral examination 100

 
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