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Overview
What you will learn
On successful completion of this Food Diagnostics course offered by Cranfield University you will be able to:
- Explain the principles and techniques currently available for food analysis, monitoring and assessment,
- Critically compare the different destructive and non-destructive techniques used to assess food quality parameters,
- Evaluate and discuss the selection of appropriate molecular techniques for the analysis of food components and food microbiological contaminants,
- Critically examine analytical data on food and, synthesising knowledge gained elsewhere in the course, design an appropriate and cost-effective sampling and analytical strategy for food.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Food analysis
- Analytical methods; chemical, biological, physical and molecular techniques,
- Use of non-destructive techniques (spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging) to assess food composition and quality,
- Food adulteration and current techniques to identify fraud,
- Analytical identification of chemical components to evaluate food safety and quality,
- Bioinformatics approaches: Integration of datasets to predict food quality and safety,
- Design of appropriate analysis strategies to solve industrial questions related to food components or contaminants.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Food Science View 41 other Short Courses in Food Science in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- No requirements needed.
Tuition Fee
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International
1400 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1400 GBP for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
1400 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1400 GBP for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for Cranfield
700 - 1300 GBP /month
Living costs
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