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Advanced HACCP Training on Verification and Validation

Alliance Approved Curricula

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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

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