Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

VPH 503 — Food Hygiene and Safety

VPH department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• express their social responsibility for detecting pathogens and lesions in food animals and their products and how to control them
• discuss public health importance of animal hygiene
• conduct meat, milk, egg and fish inspection procedures; and
• describe specific non-infectious agents, including drug residues which pose health risk to both humans and animals

Course contents

Principles of meat hygiene. Biological and chemical bases of meat hygiene. Ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection procedures. Inspection of poultry meat, eggs, milk, fish. Description of categories of slaughter facilities. Basic construction and principles of a functional abattoir. Methods of food preservation.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study VPH 503.

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