UE Tools for Research, Food Analysis + Elective UEs

Reminder of food hygiene and safety issues:

- biological hazards and containment, microbial biofilms, GMOs, fraud...

Mastery of research tools... :

- Techniques for detecting, quantifying and identifying microorganisms:
* enumerations, microscopy, epifluorescence, flow cytometry, ATPmetry, Q-PCR, DNA chips...

- Physico-chemical techniques: chromatography, IR spectroscopy, rheology...

- Enzyme immunoassay and chromatography techniques: ELISA, lateral-flowstrip...

... and application to food analysis :

- Milk: bacteriological analysis and search for adulteration
- Soda: analysis of chemical composition
- Mushrooms, starches: microscopic observations
- Oysters: detection and quantification of hepatitis A virus

Implementation of quality assurance standards :

- analytical standards, sampling, statistical processing, method validation...

Responsible for EU

Marie-Thérèse Chateau: marie-therese.chateau@umontpellier.fr