ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: NTSS10143o15Semester: 2015/2016 winter
Name: Food Packaging
Major: Food Technology and Nutrition
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 1
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Szmańko
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course in English will be available if a minimum of 6 students sign up for a group. If less than 6 students sign up for the group, the course will be available in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English.
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: The students knows properties, criteria quality estimation, packaging recycling and design principles. They can also choose the packaging for respective food products. Skills: The student knows the principles of quality packing estimation for the correctness of packing materials chosen for food products and also for packaging manufacture.
Competences: Social skills (Attitude): The students knows to project of packing – knows of propriety of packing from ecological point of view.
Prerequisites: General food technology, process engineering, engineering drawing
Course content: Functions of packing. Normalization and design of packing. Properties of primary packaging materials. Packaging technologies. Package recycling.
Recommended literature: 1.Food packing:principles and practice, Robertson G.L., Marcel Dekker Inc.,1993. 2.Packaging:specifications, purchasing and quality control, Leonard E.A., Marcel Dekker Inc., 1996; 3.Innovations in food packaging. J.H. Han. Elsevier, 2005; 4. Opakowania żywności, Red.Czarniawski B., Michniewicz J.,Agro Food, 1998; Opakowanie, wyd. Sigma-Not Sp. z o.o.
Assessment methods: Written exam.
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