Online Course Master English 7.5 ECTS

Chemical Food Safety – online course

Get in-depth knowledge of chemical food safety and sustainable food production, i.e. the use of new feed resources and the use of side streams.

In this course, you will learn about chemical contaminants and food safety. Chemical contaminants in feed and food cover among others, dioxins and PCBs, metals and processing contaminants.

Furthermore, you will get to look into how food safety is affected when moving towards sustainable food production.

Through the course, you will get an understanding of chemical food safety in a Danish, European, and international context. You will be introduced to Danish and European Union food and feed legislation with a focus on chemical contaminants.

The review of chemical contaminants covers chemical analyses, occurrence in feed and food, toxicity, and risk assessment.

During the course, you will be working with:

Chemical contaminants in the food chain
European feed and food legislation
Sustainable food production
Food contamination at farming stage
Food contamination during food processing
Chemical food and feed safety analysis
Chemical analysis
Quality assurance and evaluation of data

Profile of participants

The course is relevant for people working in the food sector, academics working in food science, and people with an interest in food safety and chemical contaminants.

Your outcome

Once you have completed the course, you will be able to:

Discuss chemical food safety in a European and international context.
Discuss chemical food safety in the context of sustainable food production.
Identify and assess chemical contaminants in feed and food.
Describe sources and occurrence of chemical contaminants in feed and food.
Identify and evaluate new feed and food resources.
Explain the principles of chemical analysis of feed and food.
Describe chemical risk assessment and the implications for human health.
Evaluate data set on the occurrence of chemical contaminants in feed and food.

Outcome for your organization

Your organization gets an employee who will be able to:

Understand and discuss chemical food safety.
Find and understand food and feed legislation in Europe and worldwide.
Keep the company updated on current and emerging issues in food safety.
Interpret and assess data on chemical contaminants in food and feed.

The course is part of the Master’s programme Master of Sustainable and Safe Food Production.

You can follow the course as part of the Master’s programme or you can follow it as a single course.

Part of the Master’s programme

If you wish to follow the course as part of the Master of Sustainable and Safe Food Production, please go to the Master’s programme page and sign up for the Master’s programme.

Single course

If you wish to follow this course as a single course, please sign up by clicking the button ‘Add to cart’ in the top of the page. When you click ‘Proceed to checkout’ you can also attach your documentation to apply for admission if you are not admitted yet. You will not be charged for any master courses until you know if your application has been approved.

Admission

To be admitted to this course, you must:

have achieved a relevant medium-cycle education (a professional bachelor’s degree or the like) or a long-cycle higher education programme
have a minimum of two years of work experience in the food science and technology field

Furthermore, you must have a solid foundation in the natural sciences (biology, chemistry, mathematics) as well as an understanding of technical processes in food production lines.

Recommended prerequisites

We recommend that you have basic knowledge in biology and chemistry. Furthermore, it is recommended that you have experience from the feed or food industry or public sector.

Education session

The course is taught online. The language of instruction is English.

The education sessions consist of e-lectures, Q&A sessions, and assignments.

The e-lectures are available online which means that you can watch them whenever from wherever.

Furthermore, you are offered weekly live Q&A sessions to get in dialogue with the course lecturer and fellow participants.

The course material will be provided during the course (selected chapters from textbooks, scientific articles, popular science articles, newspaper article, reference webpages).

Exam

The exam consists of an evaluation of assignments and a report. You must submit five assignments during the semester (counts 5% of the grade each, 25 % in total). The written report counts for 75% of the grade. The assignments and the report must be written in English.

All students are required to pay tuition fees. The prices for the different types of courses are listed below for the Spring 2026 semester.

Prices for EU citizens:

Course of 5 ECTS points: 10000 DKK

Course of 7,5 ECTS points: 15000 DKK

Course of 10 ECTS points: 20000 DKK

Master project of 15 ECTS points 35000 DKK

Full Master’s programme: 125000 DKK

Prices for non-EU citizens:

Course of 5 ECTS points: 13800 DKK

Course of 7,5 ECTS points: 20700 DKK

Course of 10 ECTS points: 27600 DKK

Master project of 15 ECTS points 46400 DKK

Full Master’s programme: 170600 DKK

The state subsidy for part-time education is determined in the Finance Act for one year at a time. DTU reserves the right to make any adjustments to the participant payment.

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