Department of Nutrition and Food Quality Assessment leads the study program Nutrition and Food Quality Assessment.
The aim of the study programme Nutrition and Food Quality Assessment is to provide theoretical knowledge and practical skills, so the graduate students are prepared to act in a capacity at the production, assessment, regulation of food quality and safety in the food industry. The graduates of this study program can also and the job in the public catering, food administration and control authorities (State Veterinary and Food Administration of the Slovak Republic, Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic), in the food reseach and development or in the field of business.
The members of the Department teach several subjects of the Bachelor degree study programmes (Principles of Human Foods, Toxicology, Analysis of Foods, Microbiology of Foods and Cosmetics, including the corresponding practical trainings) covering the field of nutrition, food quality and safety assessment.
In the Master degree study programme they guarantee the teaching of the subjects: Contaminants and Additives in Foods, Food Microbiology, Hygiene and Safety of Foods, Reaction Mechanisms in Foods, The systems of Foreign Compounds Assessment in the Eatables, Quality and Safety Assessment of the Foods, Predictive Microbiology and Risk Assessment, Dietology, Nutrition and Immunity, Physiology and Pathophysiology of Human Nutrition, Food Legislation, and the corresponding practical trainings and seminars.
