Upon completing this course participants will leave with a preliminary preventive control implementation plan and will:
- Understand US FDA final rules for the Preventive Controls for Human and Animal Foods
- Leave the training with your company PCQI approved preventive control and food defense plans
- Define and review your current system to identify gaps in your preventive controls planning.
- Learn to close any gaps
- Identify any needed procedures
- Know your requirements for control over your supply chain
- Be able to plan and implement Preventive Controls
- Be able to perform environmental monitoring
- Know how cross contamination can impact your preventive control plan
- Know the difference between validation and verification
- Understand and be able to use statistical process controls basics
- Be able to plan and implement a team approach to preventive controls
- Be able to help your food importers to jump through FDA hoops
- Develop a system to risk rank your suppliers
- Have a plan in hand that will pass any validation check for preventive controls
- Understand some of the technology and costs that can help you establish preventive controls
- Be able to prove that your system actually prevents food safety problems
- Be able to document and report results to upper management, external food safety auditors and FDA auditors
- Save your company money Establish simple, low cost complete data collection and reporting systems.
- Establish team building between food safety and quality personnel to develop and implement changes to your current system
- Establish a completely documented system