Department of Food Hygiene and Technology

Teaching activities

The Department of Food Hygiene, Technology and Safety currently provides education in five Slovak and two English full-time study programmes. These programmes include General Veterinary Medicine, Food Hygiene, Feed and Food Safety, Market and Food Quality, Animal Welfare and Protection, and the joint study programme Animal Science. It also provides teaching of six state examination subjects. Additionally, the department offers the third level of higher education. As part of teaching study subjects, the department gives practical lessons in the laboratories, at the School Agricultural Enterprise in Zemplínska Teplica, and in meat processing and dairy plants, and other food processing plants in the Slovak Republic. The students also do professional practice at the Regional Veterinary and Food Administrations of the Slovak Republic.

General veterinary medicine:

• Safety and quality of vegetable products
• Food hygiene and technology I. (milk, milk products and their chemical analysis)
• Food hygiene and technology II. (poultry, eggs and game meat and their chemical analysis)
• Food hygiene and technology III. (meat, meat products and their chemical analysis)
• Food microbiology
• Foodborne diseases
• Animal and meat control at slaughterhouse
• Food inspection

Food Hygiene

• Food additives
• Auditing of food production establishments
• Food commodity authentication
• Hygiene and processing of food by-products
• Hygiene and technology of poultry, eggs and game meat
• Hygiene and technology of meat and meat products
• Hygiene and technology of milk and milk products
• Hygiene and technology of vegetable products
• Hygiene and technology of fish, shelf life products and freezing
• Food microbiology and alimentary diseases
• Mycology and mycotoxicology of foodstuffs
• Animal and meat control at slaughterhouse
• Sensory analysis of foodstuffs
• Food inspection
• General hygiene and food engineering
• Human nutrition

Feed and Food Safety

• Packaging and labelling of foodstuffs
• Hygienic requirements for food production
• Feed and food microbiology
• Feed and food mycology
• Food chemistry
• Technology and safety systems for the processing of plant commodities
• Technology and safety systems for the processing of animal commodities

Market and Food Quality

• Biotechnology production and food quality
• Food controls within the European market
• Materials and objects in the food industry
• Cultivation and quality of fresh fruit and vegetables
• Foodstuffs of a specific character
• Food additives and ingredients
• Sensory analysis of foodstuffs
• Quality management systems for foodstuffs
• Production technology and quality of cereals
• Production technology and quality of sugars
• Production technology and quality of meat and meat products
• Production technology and quality of milk and milk products
• Production technology and quality of frozen and canned foods
• Production technology and quality of poultry, fish, game and honey products
• Production technology and quality of fats
• Food commodity knowledge
• Food inspection
• Nutritional evaluation of foods

Animal Welfare and Protection

• Animal welfare in the production of food of animal origin

Joint study programme Animal Science

• Food safety