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Join AFIA for PCQI Training in Tennessee

Registration is now open for the American Feed Industry Association\'s Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance \"Preventive Controls for Animal Food Course\" July 18-20, at the Inn at Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee. The course is ideal for facility and regulatory employees who will be designated PCQIs or part of a PCQI team.
March 23, 2017

Registration is now open for the American Feed Industry Association\'s Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance \"Preventive Controls for Animal Food Course\" July 18-20, at the Inn at Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee.

The course material is the \"standardized curriculum\" recognized by the Food and Drug Administration as adequate for preventive controls qualified individual training. The course will cover:

  • Overview of the Food Safety Modernization Act requirements for animal food;
  • Current good manufacturing practice requirements;
  • Animal food safety hazards;
  • Overview of the food safety plan;
  • Hazard analysis and preventive controls determination;
  • Preventive controls management components;
  • Process controls;
  • Supply-chain applied controls; and
  • Recall plans

The course is ideal for facility and regulatory employees who will be designated PCQIs or part of a PCQI team. Successfully completing the course is one way to meet the requirements for a PCQI. Participants will leave the training with a better understanding of how to create an animal food safety plan specific to their facility. They will be recognized by the FSPCA for completing the course and receive a certificate.

For more information or to register, click here.