The Cornell Dairy Extension team offers training across multiple FSMA Rules as well as NYS mandated trainings. In addition to the regularly scheduled courses, the FSMA trainings may be delivered virtually or as a company in-plant specific training.
If you are a domestic or foreign food facility that is required to register with section 415 of the Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act you must comply with the requirements for risk-based preventive controls mandated by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) as well as the modernized Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMPs) of this rule (unless an exemption applies).
The rule requires food facilities to have a food safety plan in place that includes an analysis of hazards and risk-based preventive controls to minimize or prevent the identified hazards.
The regulation requires that certain activities must be completed by a “preventive controls qualified individual” who has “successfully completed training in the development and application of risk‐based preventive controls at least equivalent to that received under a standardized curriculum recognized as adequate by FDA or be otherwise qualified through job experience to develop and apply a food safety system”
We offer this PCQI training several times a year. In 2020-21 we are offering the training live virtually (via Zoom.) This multi-day course fulfills the FDA Requirements for FSMA Qualified Individual Training through the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance and AFDO.
Register for the next virtual live virtual training here: https://cals.cornell.edu/education/degrees-programs/fsma-preventive-controls-human-food-qualified-individual
Food defense is the effort to protect the food supply against intentional contamination due to sabotage, terrorism, counterfeiting, or other illegal, intentionally harmful means. Potential contaminants include biological, chemical and radiological hazards that are generally not found in foods or their production environment. Rather than targeting specific foods or hazards, this rule requires mitigation (risk-reducing) strategies for processes in certain registered food facilities.
We are offering this course at several locations around the state, and we can also come to your facility and perform the training onsite. This course will provide participants with the knowledge to implement the requirements of conducting a vulnerability assessment under the Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration (IA) regulation.
To register for the September training: https://cals.cornell.edu/education/degrees-programs/intentional-adulteration
The Foreign Supplier Verification Program requires importers to perform risk-based foreign supplier verification activities to verify that the food is produced in a manner that provides the same level of public health protection as section 418 (concerning hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls) or 419 (concerning standards for the safe production and harvesting of certain fruits and vegetables that are raw agricultural commodities.
The Foreign Supplier Verification course will fulfill the FDA Requirements for Foreign Supplier Verification. The Verification Programs are certified through the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance and AFDO.
We are qualified to offer this course and will be offering it in 2022. Please contact us for potential dates.
