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Course code: VVSS00290o15Semester: 2015/2016 summer
Name: Feed Safety
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 10
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 10 / 20 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Jarosław Bystroń
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: a) Student indicates law regulations connected with sanitary-veterinary supervision of feed plants and utilization of slaughter-by products; b)identifies fibre content, coccidiostats, nitrates and nitrites, xenogenic protein additives in animal feed; determine microbiological status of feeds, c)identifies total viable count of bacteria, moulds and yeasts, coliform bacteria, Salmonella sp., anaerobic spore-forming bacteria, d)describes the steps of feed production and slaughter by-products utilization Practical skills: a) uses feed law regulation in supervision of feed production and slaughter by-products utilization b)examines and determine microbiological and chemical status of feeds c)determines risk factors for consumer health connected with use of animal origin feeds
Competences: Student coordinates, according to feed safety rules, cooperation between Veterinary Inspection and producers of feeds.
Prerequisites: sanitary-veterinary law, hygiene of food of animal origin
Course content: Technology and processing of feed, utilization of slaughter by-products, microbiological and chemical hazards in feed production, identification of xenogenic proteins, feed law, sanitary-veterinary supervision of feed plants.
Recommended literature: 1.Websites showing the current information about feed law: eur-lex.europa.eu; lex.pl; 2.McLandsborough, “Food Microbiology Laboratory”, CRC Press, 2005; 2. Wilkie A. Harrigan “Laboratory Methods in Food Microbiology”, AP, San Diego, 1998.
Assessment methods: Credits
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