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The food of the future is built today.
With the right science!

Studying Biotechnologies for Food Science means learning how to use biotechnology to address concrete food-related problems: making it safer, understanding its health effects, improving the quality of raw materials, reducing waste and the impact of the supply chain, identifying risks and contamination, and enhancing plant production, genetics, and new technologies applied to the agri-food sector.
The course prepares to answer very current questions: how can we develop safer and healtier foods? How can we use microorganisms, fermentations, molecular technologies, and genomic tools to improve what we eat? How can we prevent foodborne illness, contamination and toxicological risks? How can we make plant production more resilient, sustainable and adapted to environmental challenges? How can we reduce the impact of the agri-food system without separating human health, animal health, and environmental health? …all this in a world where the climate is changing!

The master program BFS offers two curricula:

• BFS – Biotechnology for Food Science, in English;
• BAL – Biotecnologie per l’Alimentazione, in Italian.

Both CVs share a common scientific basis followed by two alternative study paths: one dedicated to plant resilience and agri-food product quality, focusing on plant production and food technologies; the other dedicated to food safety and food hygiene.
BFS and BAL graduates can have access to several agri-food and biotechnology related jobs: research and development, quality control and management, food safety, food risk analysis and prevention, traceability, product and process development, and activities related to regulatory compliance of food products. The master program also offers a solid basis for continuing research, through a PhD or activities in universities, research centers, laboratories, and organizations dedicated to innovation in the food biotech sector.

Biotechnology is the science of the future, and it is going to change everything.