Educational goals:
- To give knowledge of the relevance of
- To give knowledge on impaired health due to dietary deficiency, excess, or imbalance.
- To acquire knowledge on food quality and control and on italian and EU legislation.

Program:
- Definitions and purposes of Hygiene Nutrition
- Nutritional epidemiology: general concepts, association and
effect measurement, bias, error; observational and experimental studies
- Feeding and Nutrition
- Food Pyramid
- The nutritional surveillance as a means of prevention: Diet and chronic degenerative diseases;life style risk factors for the development of chronic degenerative diseases.
- Body Mass Index (BMI)
- Epidemiology of obesity
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Osteoporosis
- Iodine deficiency
- Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Tooth Decay
- Nutritional safety and food quality
- Voluntary and involuntary food additives and contaminants
- Food and nutrition: impact on the immune response
- Adverse reactions to foods: allergies and intolerances
- Microbiota, probiotics, prebiotics and symbiotic
- Food contamination and its prevention
- Catering: systems and types
- Labelling legislation
- EU regulations.
- National Committee for Food Safety
- Healt claim: Regulation
- Microbial analysis and food safety management:GMP and HACCP systems, ISO guidelines
- Food safety legislation
- HACCP and practical application
- Codex Alimentarius
- Tracking and tracing,
- Indoor environmental hygiene (air, surface..) and food safety
- Detecting of foodborne pathogens: microbiological analysis, immunological techniques and modern methods based on molecular biology techniques like PCR, RFLP, DNA microarray assay.

Laboratory experiences will complete the program with basic and advanced information.

D1. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING The student must demonstrate that they have acquired the knowledge concerning feeding and nutrition for human health; methods of prevention; food safety legislation.Students can achieve those knowledges through attendance to lessons and seminars, and studying teaching material indicated by the teacher.

D2. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING The student must show to be able to delineate research topics, find information and data, with theoretical and empirical insights. Classroom discussions, seminars, and bibliographic research will help you get better results.

D3. MAKING JUDGEMENTS The student must demonstrate that they critical and in-depth reflection on the related food influencing issues on welfare and on the prevention of diseases. These skills will be gained in the classroom discussion with the teacher and colleagues in the classroom interaction as well as in the discussion phase of the exam

D4. COMMUNICATION SKILLS The student must show to be able to support a debate with people with the same experience and preparation on different topics of regulatory, scientific, procedural.

D5. LEARNING SKILLS The student must acquire the capacity for independent judgment and be able to apply the acquired knowledge in the exercise of the profession and for research. The student will be able to consult and understand scientific texts, also innovative, bibliographical updates, regulatory dictates.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Lectures and laboratory experiences.

Teaching

Classroom lectures. For some special topics will be programmed some laboratory activities.

Attendance

Students are hightly advised to attend the course.

Course books

- Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.Principles and Practices. Lee W.Riley. ASM PressWashington,D.C.

- Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases. Editors: Wild C, Vineis P, Garte S.Wiley&Sons,Ltd.

- Alimentazione e nutrizione umana. A.M.Costantini, C.Cannella, G.Tomassi. Il Pensiero Scientifico

- Nutrizione Individuo Popolazione. P.Binetti , M. Marcelli, R. Baisi. Società Editrice Universo

- Igiene degli alimenti e nutrizione umana. Roggi-Turconi. Edizioni Mediche Scientifiche Internazionali

 

Assessment

Oral examination

Oral examination on at least 3 different arguments of the course. The final aim is the evaluation of the acquired knowledge and the ability to link different temes. In addition the ability to present and communicate and to solve practical problems will also be considered. The answers will be rated also on the bases of the use of a correct language and proper specific therminology.For students with DSA certification, the applicable provisions are valid according to Law 170/2010

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Students will follow the same directions given for those attending.

Attendance

All materials used during the course is avalable on Moodle platform from the web site of the university

Course books

Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.Principles and Practices. Lee W.Riley. ASM PressWashington,D.C.

- Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases. Editors: Wild C, Vineis P, Garte S.Wiley&Sons,Ltd.

- Alimentazione e nutrizione umana. A.M.Costantini, C.Cannella, G.Tomassi. Il Pensiero Scientifico

- Nutrizione Individuo Popolazione. P.Binetti , M. Marcelli, R. Baisi. Società Editrice Universo

- Igiene degli alimenti e nutrizione umana. Roggi-Turconi. Edizioni Mediche Scientifiche Internazionali
 

Assessment

Oral examination

Oral examination on at least 3 different arguments of the course. The final aim is the evaluation of the acquired knowledge and the ability to link different temes. In addition the ability to present and communicate and to solve practical problems will also be considered. The answers will be rated also on the bases of the use of a correct language and proper specific therminology.For students with DSA certification, the applicable provisions are valid according to Law 170/2010

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

For attending students: whereas you are authorized to take notes in class thereby creating a derivative work from my lecture, the authorization extends only to making one set of notes for your own personal use and no other use. You are not authorized to record my lectures, to provide your notes to anyone else or to make any commercial use of them without express prior permission from me in writing.

E-mail communications should be made only through the institutional mail assigned to the student.