Food Traceability – Principles and Implementation

Being able to track food through all stages of production, processing and distribution is essential in all food businesses. A well developed and implemented food traceability system will make it easier and quicker for your company to undertake a food recall if something goes wrong.

This course has been designed to give you a thorough understanding of food traceability, it components and how to successfully implement traceability within your food business.

Closed Captions are available for this course.

Language: English

HACCP Mentor is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). HACCP Mentor complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, HACCP Mentor is accredited to issue the IACET CEU.

The Food Traceability Principles and Implementation online course material covers:

1. Introduction
2. Understanding Food Traceability
3. Developing & implementing food traceability systems for your business
4. Mass Balance
5. Verifying and testing your food traceability
6. Review, Resources and Recap
7. Interactive activities and assessments to test your understanding of the course material
   

To be successful in understanding the concepts reviewed during the Food Traceability Principles and Implementation course, participants need to have a sound grasp of the concepts behind food safety and process production.

At the completion of this course, it is expected that you will be able to:

• Select the benefits of food traceability
• Identify common food traceability legal & customer requirements
• List the procedures required in developing your food traceability system
• Gain awareness of how to implement food traceability in your food business
• Describe the process for verifying food traceability

A selection of real-life demonstrations, tools and templates are provided as part of this training.

This course is suited to participants who have have an understanding of how the production process works within their business.

AWARDS AND CERTIFICATES

A Certificate of Competency will be provided after you have successfully completed this course (including the knowledge assessment). The criteria to earn a Certificate of Competency and corresponding CEUs for this course includes:

• Successfully completing each of the course lessons, topics, activities and final assessment
• Achieving a pass mark of 70% or more on the final knowledge assessment

CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS

0.3 CEU (or 3 hours equiv.)

This training is suitable for those responsible for the implementation, management and review of food safety, HACCP and quality systems and processes within a food manufacturing or production environment. This includes:

• HACCP Team leaders
• Food Safety and Quality System staff
• Shift Supervisors
• Technical Managers
• Supplier Assurance Managers
• Product Development and Innovation Managers
• Procurement staff
• Any person responsible for reviewing business systems

It is also suitable for any food handler who wants to up-skill their knowledge of food traceability.

COURSE LEVEL: Intermediate

DURATION: 4-6 hours

FORMAT: This is a self-paced online course that you can start at any time. Automatic access is provided after successful registeration and payment.

TRAINING RESOURCES:  This course provides you with a course student manual, resource links and HACCP templates.

ACCESS EXPIRY: You will have 12 months access to this course before it expires.

LANGUAGE: English Text, Closed Captions and Voice Over

REGISTRATION PROCESS: After course registration, you will receive an email with access instructions. This will include your access user name and password. You will also receive and email with a copy of your order and a PDF copy of your purchase receipt. If you do not receive this information, please check your email junk, spam, or clutter folders. If the email is not there, please contact us by clicking here.

CERTIFICATE ACCESS: You will have access to an electronic course certificate and training transcript on successful completion.

EXPECTATIONS: You can access student rights and course expectations by clicking here

MULTI-USER ACCESS: Need a multi-user access? Click here to learn more.

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For any other questions, please refer to our FAQ.

On-demand training is delivered electronically over the internet.  It allows you study at your own speed, stopping and starting as needed.

You will have a 12 months access from the date of purchase to this course.

Absolutely!  After you have successfully completed the course assessment you can highlight your new knowledge with an accredited 'Statement of Competency'. Use this valuable credential to:

• Evidence your continuous learning
• Meet training requirements of 3rd party certification and customer standards e.g. BRCGS, SQF, FSSC 22000
• Improve your job prospects, or 
• Advance your career

Yes! This is a great way to meet your HACCP training obligations. Each employee will need to have their own account. Just select the amount of licenses you need during the checkout process. A company based Group Training account will be set up so you can then nominate relevant employees to take the course. Discounts are applicable for 3 or more enrolments.

This course has been developed by Amanda Evans-Lara who is a qualified auditor, trainer and assessor. 

Course Accreditation:  HACCP Mentor is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). HACCP Mentor complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, HACCP Mentor is accredited to issue the IACET CEU.

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