Monday, July 12, 2010
Food Safety Package 2
Problem Presentation:
You are the Food Safety Officer of a multi-national food ingredient company. Your Managing Director is considering importing genetically modified (GM) food crops for further process into flour and starches. However, he needs to understand the food safety issues related to GM foods before making the decision. In addition, recent press reports on several cases of food borne illnesses associated with food contaminations have also cause concerns to your Managing Director. He would like you to include in your report the analytical techniques that could be employed for the isolation and identification of food-borne pathogens and the detection of toxins that might be present in the food products produced by your company. As such, you are tasked to submit a detail report to him covering the following points:
- Outline the main principles used in the genetic modification process
- Review the use of GM Food/ Ingredients from various sources
- Discuss the benefit and controversial issues associated with the use of GM food such as the consumer’s rights, product labeling, religious/ ethnical, and environmental concerns
- Outline the principles of various laboratory techniques used for toxin detection and the permitted limit based on acceptable daily intake and food consumption studies and,
- the principle of some microbiological techniques isolation and identification of foodborne pathogens such as DNA probes and Enzyme immunoassays
The Report was separated into 3 parts
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Genetically modified foods/ingredients
part 3: Detection methods to ensure food safety
To ensure the whole report covers all the point we wanted we categorise the various points to the parts to this way
Part 1: Introduction (Huiwen and YongSiang)
- Outline the main principles used in the genetic modification process
- Review the use of GM Food/ Ingredients from various sources
Part 2: Genetically modified foods/ingredients (Hazim and Jake)
- Discuss the benefit and controversial issues associated with the use of GM food such as the consumer’s rights, product labeling, religious/ ethnical, and environmental concerns
Part 3: Detection methods to ensure food safety (BooKeong and Michelle)
- Outline the principles of various laboratory techniques used for toxin detection and the permitted limit based on acceptable daily intake and food consumption studies and,
- the principle of some microbiological techniques isolation and identification of foodborne pathogens such as DNA probes and Enzyme immunoassays
We will schedule a meeting on the 15th of July to collate all information and edit all necessities. See you guys soon! - BooKeong
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