FSPCA Preventive Controls for Animal Food (PCHF) Training Course

The Preventive Controls for Animal Food (PCHF) regulation is intended to ensure safe manufacturing, processing, packing, and holding of food products for animal consumption in the United States. The regulation requires that certain activities must be completed by a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) who has successfully completed training in the development and application of risk-based preventive controls at least equivalent to that received under a standardized curriculum recognized as adequate by FDA or is otherwise qualified through job experience to develop and apply a food safety system.

This course, developed by the FSPCA, is the “standardized curriculum” recognized by the FDA. Successfully completing this course is one way to meet the requirements for a PCQI.

This course is valuable for anyone responsible for creating or managing food safety plans in facilities handling animal food that are needing to meet the FDA's FSMA training requirement to become a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI), including:

• Managers and supervisors
• Quality assurance/quality control personnel
• Production leads
• Maintenance personnel
• Sanitation personnel
• Regulatory personnel
• Consultants/auditors

Key Learning Objectives

• Understand current GMPs and Prerequisite Programs
• Conduct hazard analysis and determine preventive controls
• Define process, sanitation, and supply chain preventive controls
• Understand verification, validation, recall, and record keeping requirements
• Meet the FDA’s requirement as a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual

Course Overview

All Eurofins Advanced Learning Institute courses are delivered by FSPCA Certified Lead Instructors.

Duration

2-day course (20 hours of total instruction time)

Outline

• Introduction
• Food Safety Plan Overview
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
• Animal Food Safety Hazards
• Overview of the Food Safety Plan
• Hazard Analysis and Preventive Controls Determination
• Required Preventive Control Management Components
• Process Preventive Controls
• Sanitation Preventive Controls
• Supply-Chain Applied Controls

Certificate

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will receive an official FSPCA Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) certificate ($60 certificate fee included with registration).

Course Requirements

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