The International Life Science Institute (ILSI), in collaboration with the University of Ghana, Legon (UGL), and the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), is organising a short course on “Food Safety for Nutritionist and other Health Professionals”. The course holds at the International Scholars’ and Resource Centre (IS&RC), FUNAAB, between Monday, June 15 and Friday, June 19, 2015.programme is designed to train and educate food and health professionals from both government and non-governmental institutions, food and catering industries, academia, as well as students on food safety issues, nutrition and food-borne illness.

Other participants that are expected to benefit from the course include nutritionists, food safety officers in government parastatals such as the local government, hospitals, schools, veterinary staff and all those who want to upgrade their knowledge in food safety or understand better, food safety and management systems.course would cover basic food and water Microbiology, food-borne pathogens, significance of food-borne diseases, chemical and physical hazards in food and factors affecting the survival, growth and control of micro-organisms.are Epidemiology and the prevention of food-borne diseases, potential local problems of food-borne disease, food hygiene, Biotechnology and food safety, among others.