FD312 Special Processes at Retail Courses
Course Overview
This five-day, virtual course explores the specific types of food processing in retail food establishments that requires a variance and mandatory HACCP plan.
Course content includes:
Course content includes:
- Smoking
- Curing
- Use of Food Additives
- Reduced Oxygen Packaging
- Live Molluscan Shellfish Tanks
- Sprouted Seeds
- Processing and Packaging Juice
- Custom Processing of Animals
- Any other process determined by a Regulatory Authority to require a variance/HACCP plan
The course also focuses on:
- microbiology of the various forms of food processing at retail
- specific concerns for each process
- necessary controls for the hazards associated with each process.
- reduced oxygen packaging (ROP) in retail settings
- practical evaluation of various food samples
- verification and validation of HACCP plans
- approaches to conducting inspections
This course is currently only available to retail food safety regulatory professionals employed with a government agency.
Registration
To register for the FD312 course:
- Review the course announcement
- Download and complete the registration form linked in the announcement
- Right-click on 鈥淒ownload鈥�
- Choose 鈥淪ave As鈥� and save the form to your computer (desktop, file, etc)
- Open the form via its saved location
- Email the completed registration form to: ORA-OTED-Retail@fda.hhs.gov
- Fee: $0.00
Registration does not guarantee admission into the course. All applicants will be notified at a future date of their status.
Upcoming Courses
Course announcements, including information regarding prerequisites, and registration forms are included as PDFs as they become available.
- February 10 - 14, 2025
- April 14 - 18, 2025
Additional courses may be added throughout fiscal year. All course dates/locations are subject to change. Visit the regularly for official course schedules and updates.
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