Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI)

Description

As an essential role within a food processing facility, the preventive controls qualified individual is crucial to the management and preparation of the food safety plan, validation of preventive controls and more. Become a preventive controls qualified individual by successfully completing this specialized training under a standardized curriculum that is recognized by FDA.

Important: Only the softcopy of the course material will be distributed on the day of training. Thus participants are reminded to bring along their laptop for the duration of the training.

Objectives

• Food regulation overview 
• Food safety plan overview 
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and other PRPs 
• Biological food safety hazards 
• Chemical, physical and economically motivated food safety hazards 
• Preliminary steps in developing a food safety plan 
• Resources for food safety plans 
• Hazard analysis and preventive controls determination 
• Process preventive controls 
• Food allergen preventive controls 
• Sanitation preventive controls 
• Supply-chain preventive controls 
• Verification and validation procedures 
• Record keeping procedures 
• Recall plan 
• FSPCA regulation overview

Audience

• Directors/VPs for food safety 
• Maintenance managers 
• Production supervisors 
• Production leads 
• Sanitation supervisors 
• Plant managers 
• Quality assurance coordinators and managers 
• Safety managers 
• Training supervisors 
• Lead technicians 
• Packaging supervisors and managers 
• Regulatory personnel