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Certified Allergen Control Specialist

A private, fully customized specialist course in hazard control, delivered 1-on-1 around your schedule and built on your own operation. You finish able to put allergen control skills to work immediately.

The Certified Allergen Control Specialist course builds deep, applied competence in allergen risk assessment, cross-contact prevention, allergen validation, labeling compliance, and allergen management programs. It is delivered 1-on-1, in English, and customized to your operation.

What You Will Be Able to Do

Listed in the TrustBite registry on completion

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

    The allergens each market regulates

    The lists in each market, and why they differ.

  2. 2

    Allergen risk assessment

    Mapping allergens through raw materials, storage, production and packing.

  3. 3

    Cross-contact prevention

    Scheduling, segregation, dedicated equipment and people.

  4. 4

    Cleaning validation and verification

    Swabs, ELISA and how to prove a line is clean.

  5. 5

    Precautionary allergen labelling

    Quantitative risk assessment, including the VITAL method.

  6. 6

    Supplier controls and change control

    Supplier controls, specifications and change control for allergens.

  7. 7

    Allergen labelling rules by market

    Emphasis rules and the business-to-business declaration.

  8. 8

    Incidents, recalls and audit

    Recalls caused by undeclared allergens, and how the GFSI schemes audit allergen control.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • InternationalThe Codex allergen list and the Code of Practice on Food Allergen Management for Food Business Operators (CXC 80-2020).
  • EUThe 14 allergens in Annex II of Regulation (EU) 1169/2011.
  • UKThe same 14 allergens, plus the PPDS rules known as Natasha's Law.
  • USThe nine major allergens under FALCPA and the FASTER Act, and the allergen cross-contact requirements of 21 CFR Part 117.
  • CanadaThe priority allergens, gluten sources and added sulphites under the Food and Drug Regulations and the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations.
  • Australia and New ZealandFSANZ Standard 1.2.3 and Plain English Allergen Labelling.
  • GFSI schemesThe allergen clauses of BRCGS, IFS, FSSC 22000 and SQF.

How We Tailor It to You

We start from your own allergen map. The exercises use your ingredients, your lines and your cleaning records, so the programme you finish with is the one you will run.

Take This Course as Part of a Bundle

Combine this course with related specialist courses. You get more skills and one certificate-backed path for less than buying the courses separately.

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Hazard Control Specialist Pack

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  • Certified Allergen Control Specialist
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Allergen Control + Hygiene & GMP Pack

This course plus two Hygiene & GMP specialisms
  • Certified Allergen Control Specialist
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  • Certified Sanitation & Hygiene Manager
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    Certified Allergen Control Specialist Questions

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

    Yes. The Certified Allergen Control Specialist 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 Certified Allergen Control Specialist course is €349.99, 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 Certified Allergen Control Specialist 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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    Enrol now and start with a session mapped to your operation, or book a free consultation first.

    Pay in two instalments or lesson by lesson, buy as a company on invoice, or claim 30% off as a graduate.