FAPH 417 — Quality Assurance in Postharvest Technology
Agriculture · University of Ghana
Scope of Quality Assurance; Good processing/manufacturing practice; Fish and fish products; Dairy products; Poultry products; Other meat products; Assessment methods: HACCP (hazard analysis, critical control point determination, critical limit determination, development of monitoring procedures, development of corrective action plan, development of record keeping procedures, verification procedures); ISO-9000 (standards for processing equipment, overview training, audit readiness, training for auditing, quality manual, sample procedures, Total Quality Management (TQM); Constraints to Quality Assurance in Ghana (lack of appropriate quality standards, ignorance of quality standards, poverty, commodity supply or availability, technical barriers (equipment and personnel), insufficient knowledge of market promotions, lack of consumer protection. Food laws and regulations (food legislation) Note: The concept of all quality issues should be related to specific agricultural commodities and products in an interdisciplinary approach. Reduction of cross contamination at the processing and consumer levels. Good agricultural and management practices at the primary level.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 200
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- AGEC 211 — Microeconomics (Principles and Applications to Households and Firms)
- AGEC 212 — Macroeconomics (Principles and Applications to Economy of Ghana)
- AGEN 201 — Agriculture Engineering II
- AGEX 204 — Vacation Rural Community Experience
- AGEX 206 — Approaches to Extension
- AGEX 211 — Food Safety and Quality Standards
- AGEX 213 — Rural Development and Participatory Methodologies
- AGEX 415 — NGO Development and Management
- AGRC 200 — Long Vacation Practicals
- AGRC 212 — Introductory Statistics
- ANIM 212 — Elements of Microbiology and Immunology
- ANIM 418 — Animal Health and Physiology
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).