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A graduate certificate in food safety from MU can help you advance your career in protecting our food supply from accidental or deliberate contamination. If you are a food industry or agency professional who needs to deal effectively with food safety and biosecurity issues, this may be the certificate for you.
Quick facts
Official name
Graduate certificate in food safety and defenseCampus
Program type
Graduate certificateAcademic home
College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources | Department of Food ScienceDelivery mode
100% onlineAccreditation
Higher Learning CommissionCredit hours
12Estimated cost
$7,200.00*This cost is for illustrative purposes only. Your hours and costs will differ, depending on your transfer hours, your course choices and your academic progress. See more about tuition and financial aid.

Career prospects
Potential careers
- Agriculture and food scientist
- Biochemist
- Clinical laboratory technologist
- Epidemiologist
- Food science technician
- Microbiologist
Program structure
The online graduate certificate in food safety and defense is 100 percent online: no campus visits are required.
Students typically take two classes each semester session and finish the program in less than three years.
Course work covers
- Food fermentations
- Food biotechnology
- Food laws, safety and security
- Foodborne toxicants
- Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) programs
- Risk assessment for food
Delivery
100% onlineCalendar system
Semester-basedTypical program length
3 yearsTypical course load
2 classes per semesterAccreditation
The University of Missouri is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States.
Great Plains IDEA
Great Plains IDEA is a consortium of 19 universities offering fully online graduate programs and courses in agriculture disciplines. Students apply to and are admitted by one university, enroll in all of their courses through that university and graduate from that university. However, the online courses are taught by faculty in the discipline from several universities.
Learn more about Great Plains IDEA.