Advanced HACCP Training on Verification and Validation

Alliance Approved Curricula

Overall Course Objectives
- Differentiate between verification and validation activities
- Identify the components of prerequisite program verification
- Identify the components of CCP verification
- Identify the components of HACCP system verification
- Identify the components of HACCP plan validation
- Identify regulatory requirements for verification and validation
Overall Course Description
- Course must cover all above-stated learning objectives and key goals for each objective
- Course is designed to disseminate information via lecture and workshop environments
Course Outline and Key Goals:
- HACCP Overview
  - Review prerequisite programs, the five preliminary steps of HACCP, and the seven HACCP Principles
  - Define verification and validation
- Verification of Prerequisite Programs
  - Develop a common understanding of prerequisite programs
  - Identify verification and validation activities for prerequisite programs
  - Understand the concept of prerequisite program verification and validation
  - Identify examples of specific activities for prerequisite program verification and validation
- CCP Verification
  - Understand the componenets of CCP verification
    - Calibration
    - Record Review
    - Independent observations/checks
  - Identify specific examples of each CCP verification activity
  - Identify parties responsible for, and the frequencies (when and how often) of, conducting CCP verification activities
  - Identify the CCP verification records
  - Describe the role of microbiological testing in CCP verification
- HACCP System Verification
  - Identify the differences between a HACCP Plan and a HACCP System
  - Describe the components of a HACCP System verification
  - Identify examples of activities conducted in a HACCP system verification
  - Identify parties responsible for, and the frequencies (when and how often) of, conducting HACCP system verification activities
  - Identify the HACCP system verification records
  - Demonstrate how to interpret and utilize the results of a HACCP System Verification
- HACCP Plan Validation
  - Contrast the differences between HACCP System Verification and HACCP Plan Validation
  - Propose how to evaluate the Hazard Analysis and other components of a HACCP plan (i.e., CCP, critical limits, monitoring activities, corrective actions, verification, record-keeping)
  - Identify examples of activities conducted in a HACCP plan validation
  - Identify parties responsible for conducting HACCP plan validation activities and their frequencies
  - Identify the HACCP plan validation records
  - Demonstrate how to interpret and utilize the results of a HACCP Plan Validation
- HACCP Regulatory Requirements (USDA, FDA, etc.)
  - Recognize the regulatory requirements related to verification and validation (“reassessment”) requirements
  - Identify current, pending, and proposed agency activities relating to verification and validation