NSCPHD1212 Food Stability
The PhD course is a part of the NOVA University Network. It will be organized in collaboration between food chemistry groups at Århus University, University of Helsinki, SLU and University of Copenhagen. The course will bring together for the first time Food Chemistry groups at the four Nordic universities in a joint teaching effort based on their complementary scientific competencies within the field of chemical and physical food stability. It will be organized as a one-week intensive program in August 2015 at University of Copenhagen where lecturers from the four partner universities will cover the field of physical and chemical stability of foods from a Nordic viewpoint.
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The course is intended for phd-students with a basic understanding of general food chemistry or a similar natural science background. The course will aim to give the students a holistic understanding of the interactions and connections between food structure, physical phenomena and chemical changes that affect the shelf life of typical foods intended for Nordic consumers. The course will begin with an introduction to food structure with focus on methods to characterize microstructure. This will be followed by physical stability issues occurring during production, handling and storage. Chemical stability of foods will cover lipid and protein oxidation as well as the use of antioxidants. One half day will be devoted to milk based products, which will be used as a specific example of a holistic approach to stability issues from the point of view of a narrow group of food products. Finally the course will end with covering new mild industrial food processing techniques and their impacts on physical and chemical stability. Two guests will be invited from Nordic food companies to come and present actual examples of handling food stability issues in the Nordic Markets.
Knowledge:
-Understanding common physical and chemical factors that affect food stability
-Understanding detailed mechanisms of and interactions between chemical and physical changes that affect food stability during handling and storage
-Knowledge about different preventive measures and novel processing techniques that can have a positive effect on food stability
-Knowledge about unique requirements to food stability in the Nordic markets
Skills:
-Be able to design new scientific experiments, related to food stability
-Be able to identify necessary information required for reliably assessing food stability
Competences:
-Be able to evaluate the stability of a given food based on available information
-Be able to suggest measures that can improve physical and chemical stability
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 15
- Lectures
- 20
- Preparation
- 80
- Total
- 115
Registration: an online registration form will be available by the end of June 2015 http://food.ku.dk/english/education/phd/application-forms/food-stability/
Contact persons: Mogens Larsen Andersen (mola@food.ku.dk) & Lisbet Snedstrup Christensen (lsm@food.ku.dk).
- Credit
- 4 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentThe course is passed when the final individual report has been approved. The topics of the assignments will be decided during week 35.
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NSCPHD1212
- Credit
- 4 ECTS
- Level
- Ph.D.
- Duration
- Placement
- Summer
August 24 - August 28 (Week 35) at University of Copenhagen.
Preparation at home before week 35 and writing of final individual assignment after week 35 will be equivalent to a work load of 2 weeks. - Schedule
- Course will run from 8:30 to 16:30 all days during week 35.
- Course capacity
- 25 participants
- Price
Course fee: EUR 200. A number of scholarships are available to cover course fees for PhD students from NOVA and BOVA institutions:
- Study board
- Natural Sciences PhD Committee
Contracting department
- Department of Food Science
Course responsibles
- Mogens Larsen Andersen (4-74767368476d76766b35727c356b72)
Lecturers
The course will include teaching contributions from Århus University, University of Helsinki, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and University of Copenhagen.