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2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

BT 128 - Food Safety and Sanitation


Credit Hours: 3

This course emphasizes the necessary procedures to produce safe food products by controlling hazards, proper sanitation, and regulatory oversight. It will include industrial procedures which will produce safe food and a safe and responsible work environment.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • explain the history and specifics of foodborne illnesses;

  • identify systems that provide protection from illness;

  • explain critical food sanitation, cleaning, and sanitizing procedures;

  • detail the fundamentals of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP);

  • demonstrate proficiency in quality control systems that verify quality of food, food safety, and shelf life; and analytical methods of determination; and

  • demonstrate an understanding of clean-in-place (CIP) and sanitize-in-place (SIP) cleaning and sanitizing and practical applications.



F/S (N)