Post-Graduate Diploma - Applied Food Safety and Quality Management

The Applied Food Safety and Quality Management, PGDip course is designed for professionals working in food manufacturing who wish to boost their career with a new qualification. Graduates from this course have gone on to secure jobs in food quality assurance, technical management, product development, food policy, inspection and enforcement, food analysis, post-harvest handling and storage, as well as academia and research.

On this course, students will learn about the requirements for providing safe and wholesome food to consumers. This course follows the farm-to-fork approach to address a wide variety of food safety and quality management issues.

Topics include good governance and national control systems, food inspection and testing services. Learners will cover the management of food safety and quality across the supply chain, as well as how to design and implement safety and quality management systems to meet national and international legislation.

The Applied Food Safety and Quality Management, PGDip course is research-informed and is taught by staff at the award-winning Natural Resources Institute (NRI), with its unique knowledge base and industry experience. The University of Greenwich invites experts from the food safety sector to deliver lectures, giving students the chance to learn from industry practitioners.