Master's degree in Food Sciences

As I said in my previous blog, I plan to continue studying after university, specialize in the area of food safety and hygiene. For me, and surely for many other people, it is important that once a profession is obtained it is followed in a search process, feel the need to specialize in a greater depth than could be obtained through extension courses. By means of a postgraduate it is possible to accede to the last available knowledge in a certain area at world-wide level and to learn the advances of the discipline.

Currently there are many masters in this area. I recently found a website (Masterstudies) that allows you to compare different masters programs throughout the world. I've found 66 results in Food Sciences, of these, 18 in Food Safety. All of them are full-time and face-to-face classes, although they have the possibility of taking the course online or part-time. It is quite flexible. What I liked most of all is that you can see even the courses that are done in other countries. Studying abroad is a real plus in our society.

One of the courses that is repeated the most is the Master's Degree in Management of Safety and Food Quality. The focus of the program is on new and emerging issues in the field of food safety, focusing on the evolution of analytical approaches to monitoring and regulating food safety, authenticity and safety.

We need a greater focus on improving all this because of the recent incidents of major food security breakdowns in both developed and developing countries as they have had a major impact on people's livelihoods, their commercial viability and supply of food in general.