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Course Detail

Course Name Food Industry Management
Course Code 25FSN362
Program B.Sc. (Hons) Food Science and Nutrition (4 Year)
Credits 3
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Unit I

Food Industry – An Overview 14 Hrs

Food Industry- Trends in food industry- Global and Indian perspective. Components of Food Industry. Organization in food industry. Operations of food industry. Deteriorative factors and hazards during processing, storage, handling and distribution. Food regulatory bodies and mechanisms, certification process to set up micro, macro model food industries. Future priorities in food production and challenges.

Unit II

Food Industry Maintenance 14 Hrs

Food Industry -Maintenance of staff and plant operators; Preventive maintenance; Guidelines for good maintenance & safety precautions; Work place improvement through ‘5S’. Wastewater and solid waste treatment. Financial management & financing for food industries. Marketing and E-Trading. Handling customers’ complains, evaluation and solution of problems, Report making. Corrective action preventive action (CAPA) in food industry.

Unit III

Food Safety and Assurance System in Food Industry 16 Hrs

Principles and systems for quality and food safety management. Hygienic designs and maintenance of equipments in food industry. HACCP and its misconception in food industry. Management of hazards. Assessment of food safety management systems. Incident management and root cause analysis. Crisis management in food industry. Significance of international, regional and national organisation in food production sector.

Unit IV

Sustainability and Ethics in Food Industry 16 Hrs

Sustainablility and food production in future. Food safety and sustainability. Social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainability and food production. Food Industry waste management. Improving sustainability in food sector. Impact of climatic change in food safety. Nutritional trends and health claims. Preparation of business proposals. Starting a Food Industry. Case studies on project formulation in various types of food industries. Ethics in food safety management- Ethical issues in food production and food safety. Ethical decision-making.

Objectives and Outcomes

 

PO1

PO2

PO3

PO4

PO5

PO6

PO7

PSO1

PSO2

PSO3

PSO4

CO1

3

CO2

3

CO3

3

CO4

2

3

Evaluation Pattern

Evaluation Pattern:

Assessment

Internal

External

Periodical 1 (P1)+P2/Midterm

30

 

*Continuous Assessment (CA)

20

 

End Semester

 

50

*CA – Can be Quizzes, Assignment, Seminar, Projects and Reports

Text Books / References

Text Books:

  1. Swainson (2018). Swainson’s Handbook of Technical and Quality Management for the Food Manufacturing Sector, Woodhead Publishing, UK.
  2. Jordan (2015). Food Industry: Food Processing and Management. Callisto Publishers, USA.

Reference Books:

  1. Lelieveld and Motarjemi Y. (2013). Food Safety Management: A Practical Guide for the Food Industry. Elsevier Science. Academic Press, USA.

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