Students will:
1.  Discuss the history of food safety in the U.S., different 
food safety agencies, and their roles
2.  Understand the food safety concerns in the food supply-chain
3.  Describe the effective uses and limitations of food safety 
programs in producing a safe food supply, including the 
importance of prerequisite programs
4.  Understand HACCP principles and the preventive control 
elements of Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
5.  Develop food safety plans using HACCP and FSMA preventive 
controls 
6.  Understand recall plans

1.  History of food safety in the U.S. and the role of 
regulatory agencies 
2.  Origins and causes of foodborne illness 
3.  Introduction to hazard analysis 
4.  Prerequisite food safety programs and Current Good 
Manufacturing Practices 
5.  Defining food safety programs with the focus on HACCP, 
Preventive Controls for Human Foods, and Produce Safety 
6.  Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) 
    a. Hazard analysis 
    b. Critical control point identification and setting limits 
    c. Monitoring critical control points 
    d. Corrective actions and HACCP verification 
    e. Examples, applications, and limitations of HACCP systems 
    f. HACCP plan development 
7.  Preventive Controls for Human Foods (FSMA)
    a. Hazard analysis 
    b. Preventive controls determination
    c. Process preventive controls
    d. Food allergen preventive controls
    e. Sanitation preventive controls
    f. Role of environmental monitoring and hygienic zoning in 
food safety programs
    g. Supply-chain preventive controls
    h. Verification, monitoring, and validation procedures
    i. Examples and development of food safety plans for 
specific foods using preventive controls 
    j. Preventive control plan development
8.  Produce safety 
9.  Recordkeeping
10. Recall planning 
11. Food defense and vulnerability assessment

“All academic work must meet the standards contained in A 
Culture of Honesty. The full text of A Culture of Honesty can be 
found under the heading “UGA Academic Honesty Policy” at 
https://honesty.uga.edu/Academic-Honesty-Policy. Students are 
responsible for informing themselves about those standards 
before performing any academic work.”