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This VITAL® Training course provides participants with the skills to perform a food industry allergen risk assessment and declare cross contact food allergens appropriately. The focus of this course is to showcase how the VITAL Program allows food producers to assess the impact of allergen cross contact and provide appropriate precautionary allergen labelling on their products.
This course is designed to complement VITAL Online and provides:
- a practical approach to integrating the VITAL Program into an allergen management plan;
- an interactive component incorporated throughout the package;
- opportunity to use VITAL Online, the web-based version of the VITAL Calculator;
- a range of practical examples;
- opportunity for group discussions
To be successful in understanding the concepts of the VITAL Program participants need to have a sound grasp of the concepts behind food allergy, allergen labelling, allergen management and allergen analysis.
At the completion of this course, it is expected that you will be able to:
- Understand of the basic concepts of VITAL and how it works alongside a robust allergen management plan.
- Understand and apply the key concepts of the VITAL Program.
- Understand the impact of allergens in ingredients, importance of obtaining accurate and correct ingredient information and the tools that are available to assist with this.
- Identify and quantify cross contact allergens due to processing and the impact of how this can affect the labelling outcome of a product.
- Enter recipes into VITAL Online and apply the Labelling Outcomes to labelling.
- Be confident in changing scenarios within VITAL Online to determine the impact of changes to allergen status.
This course is suited to participants who have previously received training in food allergy and allergen management etc. or have extensive experience in food allergy and allergen management within the food industry, as well as a solid understanding of allergen analysis.
The pre-requisite knowledge is included in this course as on-demand training. You will need to complete part 1 before attending the live instructor-led training.
To successfully complete the course, you must be present for the entire delivery and actively participate in all the exercises. A Certificate of Competency will be provided after you have successfully completed this course.
This training is suitable for those responsible for the implementation and management of food safety, HACCP and quality systems and processes within a food production environment. This could include Food Safety and Quality System staff, Technical Managers, Supplier Assurance Managers, Product Development and Innovation Managers and Procurement staff.
LEVEL
Advanced
DURATION
4.5 hours
DELIVERY
Virtual (face-to-face)
AWARD
Allergen Bureau VITAL® Completion Certificate
Common Questions
Natalie Wasowicz (verified owner) –
Amanda was able to discuss real-time examples that are helpful specifically to our business.
Janie Zimmermann (verified owner) –
The online-interactive training was a great way to experience face-to-face training and allowed for good discussion and learnings while being able to participate in online activates directly related to the training. The content of the training was exceptional, as was the trainer, and I personally got a lot out of it. A refreshing alternative to classroom training.