Careers in food quality and safety

Food processing is growing fast, and FSSA 2006 demands safety at every stage. So there are more and more careers in food quality and safety.

Professionals need to know food chemistry, processing and preservation, food analysis and quality control, and, ideally, food microbiology, food laws and sensory evaluation.

Jobs in regulation and testing:

• food legislators (who make food laws);
• food safety officers (inspectors);
• food analysts and public analysts in regulatory and health agencies;
• Agmark, BIS and quality control laboratories;
• food auditors.

Jobs in industry: in-house quality units of large food industries and flight kitchens, as HACCP trainer, quality control manager, QC analyst, food safety manager, HACCP team member, internal auditor, or in R&D.

Self-employment: running an analytical food laboratory, a food safety consultancy, or teaching food safety and sanitation. Every safe meal needs trained people.