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Certified Animal Food Safety / Animal Food PCQI Preparation

A private, fully customized specialist course in us fsma, delivered 1-on-1 around your schedule and built on your own operation. You finish able to put animal food safety / animal food pcqi preparation skills to work immediately.

The Certified Animal Food Safety / Animal Food PCQI Preparation course builds deep, applied competence in animal food hazard analysis, preventive controls, GMPs, supplier controls, recall planning, and PCQI role preparation for animal food. It is delivered 1-on-1, in English, and customized to your operation.

What You Will Be Able to Do

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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 animal food rule and the PCQI

    21 CFR Part 507, who it covers, the exemptions and what the Preventive Controls Qualified Individual must do.

  2. 2

    Current good manufacturing practice for animal food

    Subpart B of Part 507, and how it differs from the human food cGMPs you may already know.

  3. 3

    Hazard analysis for feed and pet food

    Mycotoxins, Salmonella, nutrient imbalances, drug carryover and foreign material, and how to score each one.

  4. 4

    Choosing preventive controls

    Process, sanitation, supply chain and recall plan controls, and how to decide which ones your facility needs.

  5. 5

    Monitoring, corrective action and verification

    The daily checks, what to do when a limit is missed, and how to validate a process control.

  6. 6

    Records under Subpart F

    What to keep, how long to keep it and how to show it to FDA during an inspection.

  7. 7

    Supply chain controls and labels

    Supplier verification, co-products from human food plants and the AAFCO model regulations for labelling.

  8. 8

    Writing and defending your own animal food safety plan

    You write the plan for your own facility, section by section, and present it as you would to an investigator.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • USFSMA Preventive Controls for Animal Food (21 CFR Part 507), the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the PCQI role and the FSPCA animal food curriculum, and the AAFCO model regulations.
  • InternationalCodex General Principles of Food Hygiene (CXC 1-1969) and its HACCP annex, and the Codex Code of Practice on Good Animal Feeding.
  • EURegulation (EC) 183/2005 on feed hygiene and Regulation (EC) 767/2009 on feed labelling, the closest EU equivalent to Part 507.
  • UKRetained Regulations 183/2005 and 767/2009, as applied in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
  • CanadaThe Feeds Regulations 2024 under the Feeds Act, the Canadian rules for livestock feed.
  • Australia and New ZealandNo direct federal equivalent, with feed safety covered by state legislation in Australia and the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act in New Zealand.
  • GFSI schemesHow FSSC 22000 Version 6 and the SQF Food Safety Code cover feed and pet food, and where FAMI-QS and GMP+ fit alongside them.

How We Tailor It to You

We ask what you make first, whether it is livestock feed, pet food or treats. The plan you write in the course is for your own facility, so your hazards, controls and records are the ones FDA would see.

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Three courses from US FSMA Compliance
  • Certified Animal Food Safety / Animal Food PCQI Preparation
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This course plus two Auditing & Compliance specialisms
  • Certified Animal Food Safety / Animal Food PCQI Preparation
  • Certified Food Safety Documentation & Recordkeeping Specialist
  • Certified Root Cause Analysis & CAPA Specialist
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    Certified Animal Food Safety / Animal Food PCQI Preparation Questions

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

    Yes. The Certified Animal Food Safety / Animal Food PCQI Preparation 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 Animal Food Safety / Animal Food PCQI Preparation course is €449.99, 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 Animal Food Safety / Animal Food PCQI Preparation 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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