Food Safety 101
In a world with recalls and emerging pathogenic bacteria and viruses, it has become imperative to understand how to make safe food. Under preventive controls for human foods, all employees that manufacture, pack, hold, or process food or food packaging must take a food safety course. Maximize the effectiveness of your onboarding and refreshers with food safety 101.
Objectives
· Describe fundamentals of food safety
· Describe how their actions affect food safety
· Explain food safety role of FDA, USDA and NCDA
· Explain CGMP features and importance
· Describe the importance of cleaning and sanitizing
· Describe the different types of food safety hazards.
· Describe the fundamentals of HACCP and FSMA
Outcomes
· Through active engagement in the presentation and participation in discussions, participants will identify, name and understand the principles of food safety
· Through the working group exercises, participants will gain experience identifying how employee actions can affect food safety. This exercise will provide participants examples of GMP compliance errors and there potential effects on the process and products
· Participants will gain a better understanding of biological, chemical and physical hazards and of the conditions that promote growth and cross contamination to ingredients, equipment and finish product
Outline
1. Outline Content
4. Group Activity – GMP scenario
5. The Regulators
6. Food Safety Fundamentals
7. Current Good Manufacturing Practices
8. Video
9. Sanitation
10. Group Activity – revisit GMP Scenario
11. Review
12. Assessment