This module describes the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to identify history of food processing industry, identify food safety requirements and describe important processing operations in the food industry. At the end of this module, participants will be able to identify most important historical events of the transformation of cooked ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food, or of food into other forms. Learners will be able to improve food safety-related behaviours and practices. They can describe food processing activities such as mincing and macerating, liquefaction, emulsification, and cooking, pickling, pasteurization, and many other kinds of preservation and canning or other packaging.