Food Safety Preventive Control for Human Foods Training (PCQI) 

QCS is holding a 2.5 day Food Safety Preventative Control for Human Food Training designed to address new FSMA regulation which requires every covered processing facility to have one trained person as a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual to implement and maintain a Food Safety Plan. Instructor Dr. Ramkrishnan Balasubramanian, Lead Instructor, and Dr. Tania Martinez, Lead Instructor, will present FDA recognized curriculum. 

This training will address the new FSMA regulation, which requires every covered processing facility to have one trained person as a Qualified Individual to implement and maintain a Food Safety Plan.

Why become a Preventive Control Qualified Individual?

The FSPCA course is the standardized curriculum that FDA considers adequate; taking the FSPCA training meets the requirements in the rule for training as a preventive controls qualified individual.

The definition of a preventive control qualified individual in 21 CFR117.3 of the final preventive controls rule is as follows: Preventive controls qualified individual means a qualified individual who has successfully completed training in the development and application of risk-based preventive controls at least equivalent to that received under a standardized curriculum recognized as adequate by FDA or is otherwise qualified through job experience to develop and apply a food safety system.

Instructors:

Ramkrishnan Balasubramanian is the CEO of Quality Certification Services. He earned his Ph.D. in Crop Sciences, Masters in Agricultural Engineering, and Masters in Ecological Agriculture. He also holds a Masters in Business Administration. Ram is a ISO 9001 Lead Auditor with extensive food safety/GAP and organic auditing experience. He is the FSPCA FSVP and Produce Safety Rule Lead Instructor.

Tania Martinez is the Lead Chair of the International Working Group (Food Safety), for the FCSPA Alliance of the FDA. She earned her Ph.D. in Food Safety Principles and Regulatory Compliance with special focus in all regulatory matters applicable for FDA and USDA regulated products in the US. She is a Product Regulatory Compliance Expert and specialist in regulatory legal matters in the areas of Food Safety and Preventive Control for Food, fish, seafood and fishery products, Dietary Supplements Products.

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