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Advanced Food Integrity, Defense & Traceability Program

A private, fully customized specialist course in integrity & supply chain, delivered 1-on-1 around your schedule and built on your own operation. You finish able to put advanced food integrity, defense & traceability skills to work immediately.

The Advanced Food Integrity, Defense & Traceability Program course builds deep, applied competence in a broader program covering food defense, food fraud prevention, supply chain integrity, traceability systems, vulnerability assessments, and incident response. It is delivered 1-on-1, in English, and customized to your operation.

What You Will Be Able to Do

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Every trainee who completes the course is added to the TrustBite registry of certified professionals, a public directory employers, auditors, and project leads use to verify credentials and find qualified people. The certificate keeps working for you after the course ends.

How It Works

What the Programme Covers

Eight modules, taught live and 1-on-1 in the order below. Every module is worked through on your own site, products and markets, so the examples are yours from the first session.

  1. 1

    Food integrity explained

    The difference between food safety, food fraud and food defence, and what each law and scheme expects from you.

  2. 2

    Food fraud vulnerability assessment

    The SSAFE tool, scoring each raw material and supplier for fraud risk, and writing the mitigation plan.

  3. 3

    Food fraud controls

    Specifications, testing, certificates of analysis and horizon scanning for fraud alerts and price shocks.

  4. 4

    Food defence threat assessment

    PAS 96 and the TACCP method, insider threats, site access and the points where a product could be harmed on purpose.

  5. 5

    Food defence mitigation

    The FSMA Intentional Adulteration rule, actionable process steps, mitigation strategies and the food defence plan.

  6. 6

    Traceability systems

    Lot coding, one step back and one step forward, key data elements and the records that link them.

  7. 7

    Mass balance and trace testing

    Running a full trace in both directions and proving it closes within the time the schemes allow.

  8. 8

    Your own integrity programme

    Writing the vulnerability assessment, the threat assessment and the trace test for your own site and products.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • InternationalPAS 96:2017 for TACCP and food defence, ISO 22005:2007 for traceability, the SSAFE food fraud vulnerability assessment tool and the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements on food fraud and food defence.
  • EURegulation (EC) 178/2002 Article 18 on traceability, Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on official controls including food fraud, and the EU Food Fraud Network.
  • UKRetained Regulation 178/2002, the Food Safety Act 1990 and the work of the National Food Crime Unit.
  • USThe Food Traceability Rule (21 CFR Part 1 Subpart S) with the Food Traceability List and key data elements, Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration (21 CFR Part 121) and the economically motivated adulteration hazard in 21 CFR Part 117.
  • CanadaThe Safe Food for Canadians Regulations, Part 5 on traceability and Part 4 on preventive controls.
  • Australia and New ZealandThe FSANZ Food Standards Code, Standard 3.2.2 Food Safety Practices and General Requirements, and the Australian Export Control Act 2020 for exporters.
  • GFSI schemesThe food fraud, food defence and traceability clauses of BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9, IFS Food Version 8, FSSC 22000 Version 6 and the SQF Food Safety Code.

How We Tailor It to You

We start with your own raw material list and your own site plan. The vulnerability assessment, the threat assessment and the trace test all run on your products, so you leave with documents ready for your next audit.

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  • Advanced Food Integrity, Defense & Traceability Program
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    Advanced Food Integrity, Defense & Traceability Program Questions

    The questions buyers and food safety professionals ask most about this course.

    Yes. The Advanced Food Integrity, Defense & Traceability Program course is delivered entirely 1-on-1 with a dedicated instructor, online and live, and scheduled around your working hours. Most providers deliver specialist topics as fixed-date group webinars. Confi Food builds the course around your own products, processes, and site from the first session.

    The Advanced Food Integrity, Defense & Traceability Program course is €499.99, delivered 1-on-1 and fully customized. It can also be taken in a bundle with related specialist courses at a lower combined price.

    Yes. You can combine this course with any other Confi Food courses and the price adjusts automatically, with bigger savings the more you add. The extra courses come at up to half price, so you build a wider set of skills for a fraction of buying them separately.

    On completion you receive a TrustBite-recognised Advanced Food Integrity, Defense & Traceability Program certificate with a unique verification ID, and you are listed in the TrustBite registry of certified professionals. The registry is a public directory that employers, auditors, and project leads use to verify credentials and find qualified people, so the certificate keeps working for you after the course ends.

    The certificate is valid for 3 years. After that it can be renewed by completing a short online refresher quiz for €50, and the updated certificate is issued automatically and your registry listing is kept current.

    It suits food safety professionals who need applied depth in this specific area, whether to meet a regulatory requirement, close an audit finding, or take on the role. Because it is 1-on-1, the instructor sets the starting point to your level and your operation.

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