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Diploma of Food Science and Technology

This diploma prepares you to work on the science side of food manufacturing, developing new products, running production trials and keeping quality and safety consistent across a production line.

  • Course code: FBP50121

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Where

  • TAFE NSW

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    Many students speak well of the facilities and campus, and some rate the trainers and teaching highly, though opinions are mixed on the trainers and teaching and student support, and some found the organisation and admin frustrating.

  • TAFE SA

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    26 campuses
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    Students rate the trainers, teaching, facilities and campus highly, though some found the organisation, admin and communication frustrating; opinions are mixed on facilities and campus.

  • gotafe

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    7 campuses
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  • William Angliss Institute of TAFE

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    2 campuses
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    Opinions are mixed on trainers and teaching, with many praising them and many finding them frustrating. Some also mention organisation and admin as a problem.

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Is this course right for you?

Entry requirements

There are no entry requirements for this qualification.

  • Providers can set their own conditions, such as a minimum age or a current job in the industry, and practical training may need a workplace placement. Check each provider above.

Entry recommendations

To be prepared for this course, it helps to have:

  • an interest in how food is made and kept safe
  • careful attention to detail when monitoring and documenting
  • comfort with numbers and analysing production data
  • a methodical approach to quality and safety systems

What will you learn?

You study food microbiology and biochemistry, learn how process controls work in a processing operation, and build the food safety plans that sit behind a HACCP system. A lot of the job is monitoring and documenting, so the course also covers quality management systems, workplace health and safety, environmentally sustainable work practices and the maths used to describe and analyse production data. It suits people already working in food manufacturing who want to move into quality assurance or product development, and there are no entry requirements to enrol.

  • Food microbiology and testing
  • Food chemistry and biochemistry
  • HACCP food safety plans
  • Quality management systems
  • Process control and monitoring
  • Workplace health and safety

Units of competency (10 core, 10 elective)

The qualification is made up of 20 units. Everyone completes the 10 core units below, and the remaining 10 are electives chosen from the list on training.gov.au, so they vary by provider. Select a unit to see what it covers.

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Data from training.gov.au and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (CC BY 4.0).