Food Safety Trainings

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) has developed various rules regarding food safety.

Develop the food safety knowledge of your employees by inviting COS’s Training Resource Center to facilitate your Food Safety training workshops. We can come deliver the trainings at your site, or you can join one of our open enrollment options. View our open enrollment classes.

Tulare County ranks as the #1 largest agricultural producing county in the entire nation. Agriculture is the largest private employer in the county with farm employment accounting for nearly a quarter of all jobs. Processing, manufacturing, and service to the agriculture industry provides many other related jobs. Six of the top fifteen employers in the county are food handling or processing companies, which includes fruit packing houses and dairy processing plants. 1 in every 5 jobs in the San Joaquin Valley is directly related to agriculture.

Please contact us with any questions you may have or to help you design workshops that will provide your employees with relevant Food Safety information for your business.

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Food Safety Training Workshops

HACCP

Participants will learn how to identify food safety hazards, establish control measures, limits and monitoring procedures, write and update a HACCP plan, document and verify results and to prepare for audits.

Produce Safety

FSMA has established the Produce Safety rule, which forms, science-based minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of fruits and vegetables grown for human consumption.

Preventive Controls for Human Foods

This course developed by the FSPCA is the “standardized curriculum” recognized by FDA and fulfills the FSMA requirement for a PCQI (Preventive Controls Qualified Individual).

Preventive Controls for Animal Foods

This course developed by the FSPCA is the “standardized curriculum” recognized by FDA and fulfills the FSMA requirement for a PCQI (Preventive Controls Qualified Individual).

Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP)

This FSMA rule requires that importers perform certain risk-based activities to verify that food imported into the United States has been produced in a manner that meets applicable U.S. safety standards.

Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)

This FSMA-related training is critically important for individuals working in Agriculture, as well as those working in Food Processing. GAP is not only a compliance issue; it also represents a competitive advantage as buyers are requiring food safety plans.

Internal Auditor

This interactive course provides a comprehensive introduction to internal auditing that can be applied to any food safety scheme or quality management system standard such as FSMA and ISO 9001, as well as GFSI standards such as SQF, Global GAP and BRC.