Quality and Food Safety
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Acreditação A3ES
Início / Qualidade e Segurança Alimentar
Presentation
The Higher Professional Technical Course in Quality and Food Safety aims to train professionals who, either independently or under supervision of as part of a team, are capable of implementing or maintaining a Food Quality and Safety Management System.
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Reasons to attend the course
- Exemption from national exams for entry into higher education and leading to a Higher Professional Technical Diploma.
- Guaranteed internship in a real work environment (1 semester).
- High employability courses.
- Opportunity to continue your studies to Bachelor’s degrees (with credit transfers/equivalencies.
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Who can apply:
- Candidates with a secondary education qualification or a legally equivalent qualification
- Holders of a Technological Specialisation Diploma or a Higher Professional Technical Diploma
- Holders of a higher education degree who wish to seek professional requalification
Candidates over the age of 23 who have passed the exams designed to assess their capacity for higher education attendance can also apply.
Special access contest
National Applicants or equivalent
International applicants (applicants who do not hold Portuguese citizenship, are not citizens of a EU member state and are not family members of Portuguese or citizens of a EU member state, have not lived in Portugal continuously for more than two years as of 1 January of the application year, are not beneficiaries of equal rights and duties status granted under an international treaty as of 1 January of the application year and who are not applying for higher education admission through special admissions and special entry routes).
All foreign applicants must request the equivalence of their secondary education qualifications from their home country from a Portuguese secondary school. The equivalence of your certificate to Portuguese secondary education is a mandatory requirement for the application.
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Goals
(Português)
- Conceber um sistema de qualidade, respondendo aos requisitos da norma de gestão da qualidade NP EN ISO 9001
- Implementar e aplicar a metodologia do sistema HACCP;
- Implementar e aplicar as regras básicas de higiene e segurança industrial e alimentar;
- Realizar auditorias no âmbito da norma NP EN ISO 19011;
- Monitorizar a presença de riscos físicos, biológicos e químicos na indústria alimentar.
Graduate profile
The Quality and Food Safety Technician is a professional who will be ready to implement or maintain a Food Quality and Safety Management System, either independently or working in a team.
Professional outcomes
- Companies in the agrifood industry;
- Companies providing technical services to the agrifood industry and related fields;
- Companies supplying/distributing food products;
- Consultancy firms in the areas of food quality, hygiene and safety.
Continuing Studies
Graduates of the CTeSP in Quality and Food Safety are eligible to pursue the following Bachelor’s Degrees at the ESTG-IPVC, as they have acquired the knowledge and skills required for further studies:
- Food Engineering
Study Plan
| Curricular Unit | Area | Type | Contact hours | ECTS | PUC |
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| Sensory analysis and rheology | EA | S1 | T:14.00 | P:50.00 | 6.00 | |
| Biology | CB | S1 | T:16.00 | P:48.00 | 6.00 | |
| Ferramentas e Modelos da Qualidade | EA | S1 | T:32.00 | P:32.00 | 6.00 | |
| Physics | FEQ | S1 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Higiene e Segurança Alimentar | OLM | S1 | T:32.00 | P:32.00 | 6.00 | |
| Chemistry | FEQ | S1 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Biologia (CTeSP Formação Complementar) | CB | S1 | TP:54.00 | 5.00 | |
| Inglês Técnico | ADH | S2 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Auditorias Higio-sanitárias | EA | S2 | T:19.00 | P:45.00 | 6.00 | |
| Controlo da Qualidade | OLM | S2 | T:12.00 | P:20.00 | 3.00 | |
| Legislação e Certificação de Produtos e Empresas | EA | S2 | T:19.00 | P:45.00 | 6.00 | |
| Projeto de Comunicação | EA | S2 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Food Safety | EA | S2 | P:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| Tecnologia de Embalagem | EA | S2 | T:10.00 | P:22.00 | 3.00 | |
| Chemistry | FEQ | S2 | TP:54.00 | 5.00 | |
| Física (CTeSP Formação Complementar) | FEQ | S2 | TP:54.00 | 5.00 |
| Curricular Unit | Area | Type | Contact hours | ECTS | PUC |
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| Desenvolvimento de novos produtos | EA | S1 | P:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| Estratégia e Marketing | OLM | S1 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Estudos do Consumidor | EA | S1 | T:19.00 | P:45.00 | 6.00 | |
| Manutenção e higienização de equipamentos e instalaçoes agro-alimentares | EA | S1 | T:32.00 | P:32.00 | 6.00 | |
| Projeto de controlo da Qualidade Alimentar | EA | S1 | P:75.00 | 9.00 | |
| Estágio | EA | S2 | E:810.00 | 30.00 |
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Partnerships and internships
- Adega Cooperativa de Ponte da Barca
- Ambisafe – Consultoria Gestão e Serviços, Lda.
- Aromáticas Vivas, Lda.
- CJT Consulting, Consultoria de Gestão Empresarial, Lda.
- Conservas Belamar Lda.
- Forvisão, Consultoria em Formação Integrada, Lda.
- Frulact- Indústria Agroalimentar SA
- MInhoFumeiro – Enchidos e Fumados à Moda de Ponte de Lima, Lda.
- Primor – Charcutaria Prima, SA
- Qualisafe, Lda.
- Samuel Jácome
- Trincapeixe, Indústria e comércio de produtos alimentares frescos e congelados, Lda.
- Uniqmais, Indústrias Criativas, Lda.
- VianaPesca OP
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