Food production & processing: GCSE Agriculture & Land-Use Support Workshop

Name: Food production & processing: GCSE Agriculture & Land-Use Support Workshop
Start: 2025-03-07T09:45:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-07T14:00:00+00:00
Location: College of Agriculture Food & Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) Loughry Campus

Schedule

Fri Mar 07 2025 at 09:45 am to 02:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

College of Agriculture Food & Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) Loughry Campus | Cookstown, NI

Explore the food production and processing techniques at Loughry Campus, Cookstown.
About this Event

Book your students to attend this one-day practical workshop to explore:

Meat preservation and packaging techniques in the Food Industry

Friday 7th March 2025

This programme will develop your pupils’ understanding of food processing, preservation and packaging through practical examples using in the Food Technology Centre at CAFRE.

Key areas that will be covered are:

- Stages of meat processing from farm to supermarket shelf

- Meat slaughtering, processing and quality control,

- Methods used to preserve meats including drying, vacuum packing and curing

When booking places, tickets must be requested for each pupil attending, not one ticket per school booking. Teachers are not required to book a ticket.

Registration: 9.45am

Workshop starts: 10.00am

Workshop finishes: 2.00pm

Pupils may bring their own snacks and lunch or purchase food from the outlets on campus.