Food Safety Compliance Training

This Webinar, the first in a three-part series, focuses on the methodology behind performing gap assessments for Food Safety Management Systems. This includes GFSI standards, USDA-FSIS, FDA Food Code 2017, HACCP, Preventative Controls, and FSMA under the broad umbrella of Food Safety Management Systems. Impacted individuals include those looking to implement new programs and systems or upgrade existing systems against these requirements.

The emerging medical foods market in the United States is $1.3 billion annually with strong growth potential. As a distinct, FDA-regulated category, medical foods are gaining more widespread acceptance. However, they remain poorly understood by patients, pharmacists and physicians. This webinar will describe the regulatory pathway for approval, the definition of a medical food, examples of medical foods, and product development opportunities.

Attend this webinar to understand how to select the right standard for your organization. Due to complex challenges, many of the world’s largest food retailers are mandating supplier certification to Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) schemes, which include SQF, BRC, IFS, FSSC, GLOBALG.A.P. and BAP and CanadaGAP.

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is transforming the US food safety system into one that is based on the prevention of foodborne illnesses. It will be a system in which the food industry systematically puts in place measures proven effective in preventing contamination. Having a GFSI recognized certification can be important to a company that is selling to one of the major retailers and is obliged to comply with FSMA requirements.

Intentional Adulteration (IA) establishes requirements to prevent or significantly minimize acts intended to cause wide-scale public health harm. The session will explain coverage, summarize requirements for facilities that manufacture, process, pack or hold human food. Also, exemptions will be discussed as well as best practice approaches and Food Defense Qualified Individual detail.

Attend this webinar to learn how to organize your operations in such a way that food safety is systematically ensured in order to guarantee consumer HACCP and ISO 22000 compliance will be discussed.

This training on source water protection will address the issue of source water protection and the potential impact on the food industry. Attendees will learn the best practices for the protection of source water and risk management from a microbiological perspective.

In this webinar, learn how to develop an Allergen Control plan which is a critical component in your product safety initiatives. Understand how to implement, audit, enforce and update it continually.

Attend this webinar to increase your awareness about the risks associated with consuming raw produce and the limitations of current intervention strategies. Newer strategies will be presented. The difficulty of developing and validating reliable analytical approaches will also be discussed.

This webinar will focus on how Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) food safety standards overlap or contrast with FDA food safety regulations and the different approaches taken by FDA and GFSI standards to ensure the safety of the US food supply.

This session will address factors that food companies need to consider before making decisions on outsourcing analytical food testing or retaining an in-house laboratory and the pros and cons of each approach.

This Food Safety presentation will serve as a tutorial addressing critical components of developing reliable methods for chemical contaminant analysis in foods. It will help the analyst in recognizing and avoiding common pitfalls related to chemical analysis in foods and thus avoiding potentially embarrassing situations for the laboratory. You will learn with examples related to the analysis of pesticides, mycotoxins, melamine, adulterants, and other examples of current interest.

Learn about the latest CMS hospital CoPs on dietary, food, and nutrition services in this webinar. The program will also discuss the common deficiencies received by hospitals from CMS. Supplementary information about the C&P process for dieticians provided by CMS will be discussed in detail. DNV Healthcare dietary standards will also be detailed.

The webinar will address importer concerns under new FDA laws and regulations, particularly those under the new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which is the most sweeping reform of FDA's safety authority in more than 70 years. This act gives FDA new and enhanced mandates and authorities to protect consumers and promote public health.

This webinar will focus on GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) Labeling and National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Rule (National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standards Act). Definitions of foods subject to the ruling, exclusions, responsible parties, mandatory disclosure options, recordkeeping and implementation dates will be covered in this session.

In this food safety webinar attendees will learn how to set up a robust allergen control plan with latest approaches for cleaning, validation, monitoring and preventative controls required under FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act). Also attendees will learn insights for testing, laboratory review and cleaning practices to improve or review their allergen management program.

This webinar will help attendees to understand the quality issues and methodologies that are relevant in current supply chain management to improve your customer satisfaction.

This webinar will discuss the analytical methods used in microbial analysis of water and the current microbiological indicator detections for assessing safety and potability of water system.

Food Safety requires not only preventing contaminated food from reaching consumers, but also effectively removing such products from the marketplace in a timely manner. Recall plans are an essential component of a company’s overall commitment to consumer protection. Don’t be caught holding the bag!. This webinar will discuss how to go about developing, implementing and ensuring an effective recall plan.

This webinar will not only address the semantics, but will also discuss the appropriate analytical and statistical approaches to achieving successful verification and validation studies with respect to food microbiology. The quantitative and qualitative methods of performance measurement will be discussed for verification and validation.