Ocean University of Sri Lanka - Seafood Technology (NVQ 5)

Course overview

This course has been designed to provide wide range of specialized technical or scholastic knowledge and skills to provide all-round knowledge of seafood technology. It consist of wide range of subjects related to recent techniques involved in sea food production, processing, preservation, packaging, labeling, quality management, distribution of sea food products, and this course helps students in understanding the basic concepts such as Composition of Sea Food, Food and Nutrition, Physicochemical and Microbiological Properties and Different Techniques Related to Sea Food Processing and Preservation.

Fresh diploma holders can begin their career as quality assurance executives, production executives, laboratory executives, sea food technologist etc. in sea food export companies, sea food processing companies, fish canning factories in various countries in the world.

COURSE MODULE:

SEMESTER 1

Introduction to Sea Food Industry, General Biology of Aquatic Organisms, Fundamentals of Food Chemistry, Pre- and Post-Harvest Technology of Aquatic Products, Fundamentals of Fish and Aquatic Product Processing Technology, Fundamentals of Nutrition, Workplace Information Management and Workplace Communication Management.

SEMESTER 2

Fundamentals of Food Microbiology, Fundamentals of Food Processing Technology Food Safety and Quality Assurance, Plant Cleaning and Sanitation , Unit Operations in Fish and Other Aquatic Food Processing, Fundamental of Food Packaging, Transport and Distribution of Raw and Finished Products, Introduction to Waste Management, Planning and Scheduling Work at Workplace.