SQF Workshop

June 5 - 7, 2012

The workshop is designed to meet the training and certification requirements established by SQFI for Certified Practitioners. Successful completion of this workshop will provide participants with a certificate attesting to their knowledge of the SQF 2000 Code and will help companies to meet all SQF supplier training requirements evaluated during SQF-based third-party audits.

Agenda/Outline

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

Safe Quality Foods

Third-party private certification for food processing plants has become necessary to retain and gain customers. Packaging and ingredients suppliers need to achieve certification to demonstrate their ability to consistently deliver safe, high quality packaging and ingredients. The predominant choice of U.S. private third-party certification is the GFSI-recognized and benchmarked "Safe Quality Foods (SQF)", owned by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI).

Course Description

This course is an intense, hands-on training workshop that breaks the SQF 2000 Code for food processing plants, packaging and ingredient suppliers down into digestible pieces, reinforced through work exercise and templates for building or upgrading the SQF written manual. This manual serves as the roadmap for any company's operational SQF system, training and records program. The course will prepare the participants to take the official Implementing SQF Systems Exam online. Upon completion of the exam, Certificates of Attainment will be issued by SQFI.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for those seeking to gain in-depth knowledge of the SQF Program. Managers and personnel responsible or involved in SQF 2000 implementation should attend.

Suggested Course Prerequisite

All attendees are encouraged to have a minimum of 16 hours of HACCP training in the past 4 years since HACCP is a core requirement of SQF and the "SQF Workshop" will have a limited amount of HACCP training.

Your Instructor

Allen Sayler is the Vice President of Food Safety, Technology & Regulatory Solutions at H. Randolph Associates, Inc. (HRAI). He is staffing the new RAI Washington, DC office located in Woodbridge, Virginia. Sayler was formerly Vice President for Regulatory Affairs & International Standards for the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA). His dairy career has spanned almost 30 years. He has a B.S. in Biology from the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, with extensive course work in Civil Engineering. His professional record includes working for the North Dakota Department of Agriculture, the US Food & Drug Administration, the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, the International Dairy Foods Association, and H. Randolph Associates Inc. Sayler has comprehensive knowledge of dairy production, processing, food safety & quality assurance programs, as well as state and federal regulations, HACCP & SQF systems, product sampling and testing, water and wastewater treatment, and drug residue screening programs. He has extensive experience working on international dairy standards and dairy trade issues.

Registration Form

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