EIT Food - Consumer and Environmental Safety: Food Packaging and Kitchenware

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Consumer and Environmental Safety: Food Packaging and Kitchenware
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Overview

Discover the importance of kitchenware and packaging that is safe for people and the environment alike

Duration	5 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
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Credential	Certificate

Consumer and Environmental Safety: Food Packaging and Kitchenware

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Overview
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Course Details
Curriculum
Faculty

Consumer and Environmental Safety: Food Packaging and Kitchenware
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Highlights

Earn a certificate from EIT Food

Consumer and Environmental Safety: Food Packaging and Kitchenware
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Statistics Supply chain management

Who should do this course?

This course is for anyone interested in potential health risks derived from food packaging and kitchenware, and in particular from chemicals migrating from packaging into food and drink

What are the course deliverables?

Reflect on the importance of safe food packaging and kitchenware in your daily life and choices

Evaluate how chemicals can migrate from packaging and slowly affect our endocrine health

Assess how chemical and biological tests are done and evaluate their importance for safety

Describe the professional roles of all stakeholders in the business of food safety in general

Discuss the topics of the course with increased knowledge and contribute to global awareness

Interpret information and news with increased critical sense, especially when dealing with consumers’ health and protection

More about this course

In this course, you'll learn about these endocrine disrupters and their potential impact on human health and the environment.
You'll evaluate how chemicals can migrate from packaging and slowly affect our endocrine health, and how tests can check for safety. Ultimately, you'll better understand how we can improve food safety in general.

Consumer and Environmental Safety: Food Packaging and Kitchenware
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Curriculum

Food packaging, its material and the issue of migration

What is packaging? What for?

Chemical analyses and the issue of migration

The detection of unwanted chemicals in our food

Verify your learning

What comes next in Week 2

Migrating chemicals: is there a health concern?

Chemical analyses and biological analyses

The need of statistics and epidemiology when dealing with human

The suspected action of migrating chemicals on our hormonal health

Verify your learning

What comes next in Week 3

Biotests their use in research and for monitoring

Biological tests and current reseach on EDC

How is research on endocrine interference proceeding ?

Verify your learning

What comes next in week 4

Innovations that improve the system

The search for novel packaging materials - the bioplastics

Who conducts research? Who pays for it?

The position of the food industry

What comes next in Week 5

Consumers, Science, Health and Society

The ideal flow of activity to protect health and environment

Finding an equilibrium among stakeholders

The difficult task of the legislator and of regulatory agencies

Final assessment and 'take home message'

Consumer and Environmental Safety: Food Packaging and Kitchenware
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Faculty details

Giorgio Roberto Merlo

I am a professor at the Department of Biotechnology of the University of Torino. I do research in developmental biology with a specific interest in gonadotropic hormones and brain development.