University of East Anglia (UEA) is offering another free on-line course on Identifying Food Fraud starting 8 January. The course lasts 4 weeks, and the sessions are for 2 hours/week, in the form of short documentaries, lectures and quizzes covering:
•Introduction to methods of food fraud detection
•Infra-red detection of fraud in coffee
•Verifying the authenticity of honey using stable isotopes
•Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy and the horsemeat scandal
The course is aimed at first year undergraduates and food company technical managers to raise awareness of methods of analysis to detect food adulteration.
More details and registration at: Identifying food fraud
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