Introduction
中文Accessing to safe food is crucial for sustaining one’s good health and maintaining Taiwan’s reputation as a gastronomic paradise. Institute of food safety and health risk assessment of Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, was established in (August, 2017). We aim to educate and cultivate master students’ expertise among:
- Hazardous substance health risk assessment;
- Cross-disciplinary management and communication for food safety and health risks;
- Food Safety and Management;
- Food nutrition epidemiology;
- Interaction between food and medicine.
Institute Features
The characteristics of this institute are to integrate cross discipline resources within the college, develop the combination of industry, official and university, combine theory and practice, and cultivate scientific evidence, strategic thinking, and risk management of food safety professionals. The institute’s faculty and students reflect the multidisciplinary nature, including food science, public health, sanitary inspection, and risk analysis. Our mission is to establish a highly professional environment and curriculum that fit our food safety needs. To pursue this mission, our program provides resourceful, comprehensive, and rigorous education in order to cultivate students to have interdisciplinary ability in food safety, health risk assessment, and risk management and communication for addressing any food safety issues.
