Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI)

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.

• 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

• 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