Program Advantages:

1. This program is characterized by ensuring the graduation of qualified and distinguished veterinarians in the field of food health and safety, which is one of the most important branches of life and the most dangerous fields of interest to all members of society at the local and international levels, and these are the various fields related to food health, especially those of animal origin and their safety. It should be noted that approximately eighty billion dollars are spent annually on the global level in the field of food health and safety. For example, in the United States of America, approximately 76 million cases of disease caused by food epidemiology appear annually, of which approximately three hundred thousand cases are admitted to hospitals, and deaths may reach five thousand cases annually. As for here in Egypt, there are many problems arising in the field of food health and safety in places of catering in schools, university cities, hotels, hospitals, tourist places and various gatherings. Where we look daily in all newspapers and news about the outbreak of diseases during public events as Easter and various holidays as a result of food contamination and the lack of health conditions for its circulation. Therefore, Egypt, like other developed countries, was concerned with protecting the consumer and his health through strict control of different foods, starting with their collection, transportation, storage and its circulation, through good monitoring of the issuance of standards and standard specifications for all products, especially animal ones, which are a major cause of the spread of diseases. The state has actively sought to bring together the various bodies in one body, which is the (Food Safety Authority).


2. Studying in the various faculties of veterinary medicine covers many specializations, including monitoring food health and safety, but under the current circumstances, the veterinarian is graduated, who is well versed in the various fields of veterinary medicine branches and has limited experience in the field of food safety, which is refined After that in the form of specialized studies in this field until he is qualified to carry out the work entrusted to him. Therefore, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University sought to launch this program specialized in the field of food health and safety, which would enable the veterinarian to become trained in many skills and give him challenges to control food and food safety in all the different ports and sectors of the state. Thus, the specialized veterinarian becomes one of the main mayors in this field, on which the specialized bodies in food safety are built, based on the fact that most foodborne diseases are transmitted through foods of animal origin, such as meat, poultry, fish, oils, dairy and other products that require graduates with special knowledge in this field.


3. Due to the labor market’s need for such a graduate, a group of elite professors specialized in this field from veterinary medicine, agriculture, human medicine, the Faculty of Tourism, Law and Commerce, the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, faculty of sciences, the Institute of Nutrition and Home Economics, and some of the Ministries and bodies concerned with food health, such as the laboratories of the Ministry of Health, the Animal Health Research Institute, the laboratories of the Export and Import Authority, the laboratories of quality control at the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture, and those interested in this in the field of tourism. will teach in this special program. Thus, the program has been designed using the standards of the National Authority for Quality Assurance of Education, as well as the standards of the World Organization for Animal Health, to ensure a distinguished veterinarian in this field, so that graduates are qualified to assure food health and safety to ensure their conformity with local and international standards to provide safe food. In addition, the ability of these specialized graduates to participate in quality management work (ISO 22000 Food Safety, ISO 9001 Quality, ISO 14000 Environmental and ISO 17000 Equipment) as well as in revision, examination and auditing after passing the initial requirements and courses