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Certified Cleaning Verification & Validation Specialist

A private, fully customized specialist course in hygiene & gmp, delivered 1-on-1 around your schedule and built on your own operation. You finish able to put cleaning verification & validation skills to work immediately.

The Certified Cleaning Verification & Validation Specialist course builds deep, applied competence in aTP testing, allergen cleaning validation, swabbing, sanitation verification, trend review, and corrective action triggers. 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

    Why cleaning is a control

    Where cleaning sits in your prerequisite programmes and HACCP plan, and the difference between verification and validation.

  2. 2

    Soils, surfaces and chemistry

    How fat, protein, sugar and biofilm stick to steel, plastic and rubber, and how detergent, time, temperature and mechanical action remove them.

  3. 3

    Writing a cleaning procedure

    Cleaning instruction cards, CIP and COP steps, dosing and contact times, and the records that show each step was done.

  4. 4

    Designing a validation study

    Choosing worst case soils, products and positions, setting acceptance criteria and running the three trials that prove the procedure works.

  5. 5

    Verification methods

    Visual inspection, ATP swabs, allergen specific tests, protein swabs and microbiological swabs, and what each one can and cannot tell you.

  6. 6

    Sampling plans and trending

    Where to swab, how often, how to set action limits and how to read trends before they become failures.

  7. 7

    Cleaning failures and corrective action

    What to do when a swab fails, finding the root cause of cleaning failures, retraining and when to revalidate.

  8. 8

    Validate one line at your site

    A full validation protocol and report for one piece of your own equipment, with the verification schedule to keep it clean.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • InternationalCodex General Principles of Food Hygiene (CXC 1-1969), the cleaning and allergen sections of ISO/TS 22002-1, and the Codex Code of Practice on Food Allergen Management (CXC 80-2020).
  • EURegulation (EC) 852/2004 Annex II on cleaning and disinfection, Regulation (EC) 2073/2005 on microbiological criteria, and Regulation (EU) 2021/382 on allergen management.
  • UKThe Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 and equivalents, and retained Regulation 852/2004.
  • USThe sanitation requirements of 21 CFR Part 117 Subpart B, USDA FSIS sanitation SOPs under 9 CFR Part 416, and the FDA Food Code for food service.
  • CanadaThe Safe Food for Canadians Regulations, Part 4, on sanitation and the preventive control plan.
  • Australia and New ZealandFSANZ Food Standards Code, Standards 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 on cleaning, sanitising and premises.
  • GFSI schemesThe cleaning validation and verification 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 cleaning procedures, your chemicals and your swab results. The validation protocol you write in Module 8 is for your own line, so you can run it the week after the course ends.

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Three courses from Hygiene, Sanitation & GMP
  • Certified Cleaning Verification & Validation Specialist
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Cleaning Verification & Validation + Hazard Control Pack

This course plus two Hazard Control specialisms
  • Certified Cleaning Verification & Validation Specialist
  • Certified Allergen Control Specialist
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    Certified Cleaning Verification & Validation Specialist Questions

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

    Yes. The Certified Cleaning Verification & Validation 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 Cleaning Verification & Validation 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 Cleaning Verification & Validation 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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