In this two-day workshop conference you will learn the legal requirements, how to develop a company plan that meets FDA and your customer requirements. You will review and learn how to establish appropriate temperature monitoring, sanitation, container test and traceability, training and data reporting procedures.
New low-cost GPS enabled traceability and temperature monitoring technology, EPA approved container sanitizers, washout technologies, temperature maintenance equipment, and food residue and bio-contaminant testing will be presented.
The session will also review the future of transportation food safety in light of new and evolving technologies. References to upcoming technology providers and Internet links to detailed information will be provided.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completing this course participants should:
- Understand upcoming US FDA Rules for the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Foods
- Be able to use a simple checklist to perform a gap analysis between your current practices and new compliance requirements.
- Be able to develop and implement a company transportation food safety plan to close any gaps
- Write and implement appropriate container (truck, trailer, sanitation, testing, container traceability and temperature monitoring procedures.
- Develop a Shipper/Carrier "Contract of Carrier" that meets FDA requirements.
- Know the different requirements for shippers, carriers and receivers.
- Understand "container" controls from the harvest level through final delivery.
- Establish simple, low cost complete data collection and reporting systems.
- Understand new food transportation standards
- Know which tools are required for food transportation sanitation controls
- Know where to get certification training for drivers and other personnel
- Establish teambuilding between food safety and quality personnel to develop and implement changes to your current system
- Prepare for food transportation audits and certification
- Understand food safety, security and recall responsibilities in light of cargo theft, adulteration and temperature failures
- Learn how to use your system to improve your marketing position
Who will benefit:
This course is designed for food supply chain logistics and food safety and security personnel whose primary responsibilities include management, sanitation, quality and operations involved with handling incoming and outgoing food shipments, maintaining transportation equipment and tools, and purchasing or selling.
- U.S. Food shippers, carriers, receivers and maintenance operations
- Food importers whose food will be consumed in the U.S.
- Food handlers
- Logistics professionals
- Food safety and quality professionals
- Truck, rail and other maintenance personnel (reefers, doors, walls, ducts, etc.)
- Food safety lead and audit team members
- Food security personnel
- Recall specialists
- Company sales and marketing personnel
- Registration Process: 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
- Session Start Time: 9:00 AM
- Lecture 1: Review of the FDA’s final rules on the sanitary transportation of human and animal foods.
- Definitions
- Responsibilities
- Lecture 2: Review of other international transportation food safety guidance and laws
- Lecture 3: The meaning of adulteration
- Lecture 4: Review of Standards
- Management
- Sanitation
- Preventive controls
- Traceability and temperature monitoring
- Training
- Lecture 5: GAP analysis
- Lecture 6: Learning what happens during cold chain food transportation through all processes
- Farms
- Air
- Ship
- Truck
- Trays and Bins
- Pallets
- Lecture 7: Data, logs, forms and electronic record keeping
- Lecture 8: Shipment cargo theft, security and recall
- Lecture 9: Issues facing food importers and those buying from them
- Lecture 10: Return on investment (ROI) and marketing advantages
- Lecture 11: Future technologies (trans-oceanic, satellite, etc.)
- Lecture 12: Afternoon practicum: Establishing an initial plan to implement your auditable system
- Choosing which standards apply to your company
- Flowcharting your process
- Determining when and how you will perform a GAP analysis
- Listing new procedures for your operation
- Selecting and assigning key personnel
John Ryan
Owner, Ryan Systems Inc
Dr. John Ryan holds a Ph.D. in research and statistical methods. He has been working on transportation food safety issues since 2011 after retiring from his position as the administrator for the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture's Quality Assurance Division where he headed up Hawaii’s commodity inspection, food safety certification and measurement standards service groups. He has won awards for traceability technology for his visionary and pioneering work. He is the president of the Ryan Systems, Inc.
His latest book “Validating Preventative Food Safety and Quality Controls: An Organizational Approach to System Design and Implementation”, January, 2017 is available on most book websites.
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