PolyU is the first collaborator of JIFSAN to offer training courses outside the United States.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has entered into a collaboration with the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN), a centre of excellence established by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the University of Maryland, to provide science-based food safety training in Hong Kong and Shenzhen recognized by FDA.
PolyU is the first collaborator of JIFSAN to offer training courses outside the United States, demonstrating its unique role in raising the standard of food safety in the region.
As the first initiative of this collaboration, Food Safety and Technology Research Centre (FSTRC) will offer FDA food safety training courses focusing on different aspects of risk analysis, covering basics like understanding terminology of food safety risk analysis, technical aspects such as how to use tools and techniques to conduct risk assessment, and management aspects on decision process and risk communication.
This is in response to the increasing need to educate food safety and other public health professionals on the principles of risk analysis and the tools and techniques in order to systematically address food safety issues worldwide. Risk analysis has been implemented by international organizations such as Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
