- Docente: Gianluca Ricci
- Credits: 3
- SSD: MED/50
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Environment and Workplace Prevention Techniques (cod. 8487)
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from Oct 02, 2025 to Dec 18, 2025
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to: understand official controls in food safety, including their definition, types, operational methodology, and how to document and record them; know about checklists, their usage methodology, and national and regional control and surveillance plans; understand official controls using audit techniques and how to manage non-conformities identified during inspections.
Course contents
Introduction and definitions related to official food safety control, and an introduction to HACCP;
The procedure for the registration and approval of food business operators;
Tools for official controls: the manual for official controls at food business operators, the Official Control Form, the non-conformity detection form, and checklists;
The various official food safety control techniques and the required checks;
Food sampling techniques and how to complete the sampling report.
Readings/Bibliography
There is no need to purchase specific textbooks. Updated teaching materials will be provided during class or made available in the "didactic resources on Virtuale".
Teaching methods
During frontal lessons, the general issues related to carrying out food safety control activities will be discussed.
Group work sessions are planned to give each student the opportunity to test themselves in designing autonomous solutions to real-world problems that will be presented.Assessment methods
Learning is assessed through a final exam, which verifies the acquisition of expected knowledge and skills through a 60-minute written test without the aid of notes or books.
The written test consists of 18 multiple-choice questions and 3 open-ended questions designed to assess the student's theoretical knowledge of the topics covered in class.
Each correctly answered multiple-choice question is worth one point; there are no penalties for unanswered or incorrect questions. Each open-ended question will be graded up to a maximum of 4 points.
The final grade is calculated as the total sum of the points obtained exclusively on the final exam.
Teaching tools
Video projector, PC, blackboard.
Office hours
See the website of Gianluca Ricci