Food Allergy Awareness Course

Description

Food Allergy Awareness Diploma 

For those handling foods, it is essential to be aware of various food allergies. This is where the Food Allergy Awareness Diploma course comes in handy. It provides participants with the required knowledge about food-related reactions, thus helping them keep allergic people safe.

It is imperative to manage allergies. The only possible method to achieve this is to avoid contact with the food that affects them adversely. Thus, people handling food must know how to read labels and be adept at preventing adulteration.

This Food Allergy Awareness Diploma course aims to create more awareness about the impact of allergies associated with a particular ingredient or food item. One can learn how to ensure that consumers are well-versed with various food options. To date, there is no definite cure for food allergies other than simply avoiding consumption to escape a reaction. Even with just a dash of an allergic component, indications vary from trivial to significant. In some cases, they may be fatal.

Through this Food Allergy Awareness Diploma course, you can explore in-depth all aspects that should be considered for consumer safety. As per the Food Information Regulations guidelines, it is legally required to furnish precise information about the ingredients, whether it is shared verbally to the customers for loosely stored food or via detailed labelling for packaged food items.

Eating out at hawkers, cafes and restaurants are pretty standard for us, and people are more aware of their allergies now than ever before. But there was a time when a bought meal or a packed food item carried the risk of a severe life-threatening reaction. Therefore, people working in food production factories or preparing or selling food items should be abreast with food allergies, risks, and preventive measures.

There are 14 main allergens as listed by the EU Food Information for Consumers Regulation that became legal in the U.K. in 2014. Individuals may be allergic to other foods such as celery, gluten-containing cereals, eggs, crustaceans, molluscs, mustard, fish, lupin, milk, almonds, peanuts, sesame seeds, soya, and sulphur dioxide (sometimes known as sulphites). This course teaches you in detail about each of these, their implications and more. Any person handling food should be thorough with this concept as negligence in storing and managing etc., can have massive repercussions. The Food Allergy Awareness diploma can be signed up for online and attended through your laptops, smartphones or tablets.

What you will learn  

1: Get to Know About Food Allergies 

2: What Causes Food Allergy 

3: Food Allergy Common Signs and Symptoms in Skin

4: Food Allergy Common Signs and Symptoms in Respiratory Tract, GI and Heart 

5: Identifying the Common Allergenic Foods

6: Your Allergic Food Substitutes

7: Preparing Allergen-Free Diet

8: Managing with Allergens at Home 

9: Dealing with Food Allergies While Travelling and Eating Out 

10: Food Allergy Awareness Among Allergic Children 

Course Outcomes

After completing the course, you will receive a diploma certificate and an academic transcript from Elearn college.

Assessment

Each unit concludes with a multiple-choice examination. This exercise will help you recall the major aspects covered in the unit and help you ensure that you have not missed anything important in the unit. The results are readily available, which will help you see your mistakes and look at the topic once again. If the result is satisfactory, it is a green light for you to proceed to the next chapter.

Accreditation

Elearn College is a registered Ed-tech company under the UK Register of Learning( Ref No:10062668). After completing a course, you will be able to download the certificate and the transcript of the course from the website. For the learners who require a hard copy of the certificate and transcript, we will post it for them for an additional charge.