Risk analysis to ensure food safety and consumer protection

Matís will hold a course on risk analysis in the field of food and nutrition on 16, 19 and 20 November, but risk analysis is a well-defined method for understanding and assessing risk due to food consumption and how it can be reduced. There is a lot of interest in this area and now the course is full.

During the course, foreign experts from the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Germany will give interesting lectures on the main aspects of risk analysis in connection with food consumption, ie risk assessment, risk management and risk presentation. There will also be a review of recent practical examples of food hazards based on real-world cases in the experts' home countries.

These lectures are part of teaching in the course Food Safety, which is taught for the first time this autumn semester in a master's program in food sciences, but this postgraduate program is the fruit of a collaboration between the University of Iceland, three other state universities and Matís. The experts from BfR we have recruited are: Dr. Anja Buschulte veterinarian and expert in the field of food safety and Prof. Matthias Greiner specializes in food risk assessment.

This is a unique course on risk analysis in the field of food and nutrition that is suitable for those who want to strengthen and deepen their knowledge of how to use risk analysis in this field.

The course will be held in English and more information about the program can be found here:

 Further information is provided by Helga Gunnlaugsdóttir at Matís.