Food Safety and Defense Graduate Certificate Program

This is a program of the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance (IDEA).

The Food Safety & Defense Graduate Certificate Program is an inter-institutional certificate program being offered in cooperation with Kansas State University Food Science Institute, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Food Science, and University of Missouri Food Science programs. These universities have established a multi-state agricultural consortium to develop and deliver high-priority collaborative distance education programs in the food and agricultural sciences.

The online certificate includes a minimum of 12 credits, 8-9 credits in core courses and at least 3-4 elective credits, on topics including food microbiology, foodborne toxicants, HACCP, food safety and security overview, food laws, risk assessment, food biotechnology, rapid food microbiological methods, food allergy, and food fermentations with each participating university offering at least one course on a regular basis, and each university cross-listing all courses.

For more information contact:

Suzanne Hendrich, Professor
220 MacKay, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
(515) 294-4272 or e-mail: shendric@iastate.edu

Admissions Information:

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