Even It Up!

wrong.....the degree in Medical and Laboratory Science has been taught (and continues to be taught for more than twenty years....The University of Adelaide has been teaching this particular degree course since the very early 1990's. I also how that HACCP quality assurance training as probably been going just as long and or even longer.....My dad was a meat inspector at a meat works during the sixties and you had to do a course then?  Where are you getting your information from?

Umm... I'm talking about Food Science not Medical and Laboratory Science... Food Science is a very different course to Medical and Laboratory Science. I think this is where you are getting confused. You seem to assume that one lab is very like another and do not understand the scope of the different professions.

Yes you have had to do HACCP courses and basic food safety, but the qualified food technologist being on site at a food factory is still so new it's still not a legal requirement only very seriously suggested. Also Food Science is a hell of a lot more than just HACCP and basic food safety lol.

Where am I getting my information about what? Food Science only being taught for the last 10 years? From Uni of Adelaide and Regency TAFE and from the AIFST (Australian Institute of Food Scientists and Technologists) of which I am a member.  People who have worked in the industry and do similar jobs to mine have only recently been able to get the title of Food Technologist. Yes they have had short courses, but the difference is in the training we NOW get to do my job.

Please do not argue in ignorance, and besides this is starting to get very off topic. It seems that when a topic stalls the first reaction of some members is to start an all out personal attack about some minor point of someone else's post... quite annoying...