By Adriene Cooper, Senior Events Manager, Food Safety Summit
2 brand name brand-new certificate courses will be provided at the 2024 Food Safety Summit consisting of Preventive Controls for Human Foods 2.0 provided by the FSPCA and Active Managerial Control for Leaders provided by the Association for Food and Drug Officials (AFDO). Both courses will start on Monday, May 6, 2024, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. In addition, 3 returning courses consisting of HACCP for Food Processing Personnel, Food Fraud Prevention, andQualified Professional– Food Safety (CP-FS) evaluation course will be used. The following are descriptions for these 5 pre-Summit courses:
- NEW– Active Managerial Control (AMC) for Leaders– Join Steven Mandernach, Executive Director, Association of Food and Drug Officials for this brand-new one-day AMC workshop for market, created to challenge franchisees and operations leaders by checking out the relationship in between food security culture, food security management systems, and functional quality within a company. And most importantly, the individuals of this brand-new AMC for Leaders workshop will have the choice to access the AMC for Leaders Train-the-Trainer course, held essentially. Certificate of conclusion provided by AFDO.
- NEW– Preventive Controls for Human Foods 2.0– Kathy Gombas, Senior Advisor, FSMA Solutions and Martin Bucknavage, Senior Food Extension Associate and Team Lead, Industry Food Safety and Quality, Penn State will lead this brand-new 2.5-day course. The Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-based Preventive Controls for Human Food guideline (described as the Preventive Controls for Human Food policy) is planned to make sure safe manufacturing/processing, packaging, and holding of foodstuff for human intake in the United States. The guideline needs that particular activities need to be finished by a “preventive controls certified private” who has actually “effectively finished training in the advancement and application of risk-based preventive controls.” This course established by the FSPCA is the “standardized curriculum” acknowledged by FDA; effectively finishing this course is one method to satisfy the requirements for a “preventive controls certified specific.” This two-day course consists of a certificate of conclusion provided by FSPCA.
- Qualified Professional– Food Safety (CP-FS) Credential Review Course– This two-day course was established by market professionals from throughout the nation to offer individuals with an evaluation of the understanding and abilities required to pass the CP-FS Credential Exam. It likewise supplies a strong introduction of food security requirements and practices. This course supplies the understanding and abilities needed to assist make sure safe food in any retail environment– as a quality control or quality assurance supervisor, a center supervisor, a food-safe chemical provider, or as a regulative inspector/investigator. This evaluation course will be led by Melissa Vaccaro, Senior Food Safety Program Specialist for National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) who exists the course.
- Food Fraud Prevention Workshop and Certificate Course– Food scams avoidance is among the most immediate and misconstrued food market subjects.
