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Certified Food Safety Consultant Program

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

The Certified Food Safety Consultant Program course builds deep, applied competence in the flagship program for those building a career in food safety consulting. Covers consulting practice, implementation project management, auditing, client communication, documentation development, and the business of advisory work. 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

    The consultant's role

    What clients pay for, where you add value, what stays the client's job and how to say so.

  2. 2

    Scoping an engagement

    The first call, the site visit, the questions to ask and the scope document that stops the job growing without pay.

  3. 3

    Gap assessment as a service

    Assessing a client against a scheme or a law, scoring the gaps and presenting the findings so the client acts.

  4. 4

    Proposals and pricing

    Day rates, fixed fees and retainers, what to include and exclude, and writing a proposal a client signs.

  5. 5

    Building systems for clients

    HACCP plans, prerequisite programmes and BRCGS, IFS, FSSC 22000 or SQF documentation the site will keep using after you leave.

  6. 6

    Working across markets

    The laws of the EU, UK, US, Canada and Australia and New Zealand, and knowing when to bring in a local expert.

  7. 7

    Audit preparation and reporting

    Mock audits, coaching the site team, support on audit day and writing reports the client and the auditor both trust.

  8. 8

    Ethics, liability and your first engagement

    Independence, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, contracts and insurance, then a full scope, proposal and gap report for a client of your own.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • InternationalCodex General Principles of Food Hygiene (CXC 1-1969), ISO 22000:2018, ISO 19011:2018 and the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements.
  • EURegulation (EC) 178/2002, Regulation (EC) 852/2004 with Regulation (EU) 2021/382, Regulation (EC) 853/2004 and Regulation (EU) 1169/2011.
  • UKThe Food Safety Act 1990, the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 and equivalents, and retained Regulations 852/2004 and 178/2002.
  • USFDA FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food (21 CFR Part 117), FSVP (21 CFR Part 1 Subpart L), USDA FSIS 9 CFR Parts 416 and 417, and the FDA Food Code.
  • CanadaThe Safe Food for Canadians Act and Regulations, licensing, Part 4 preventive controls and Part 5 traceability.
  • Australia and New ZealandThe FSANZ Food Standards Code, Chapter 3, and in New Zealand the Food Act 2014 and MPI Food Control Plans.
  • GFSI schemesBRCGS Food Safety Issue 9, IFS Food Version 8, FSSC 22000 Version 6 and the SQF Food Safety Code, and which one to recommend to which client.

How We Tailor It to You

Before the first session we ask about the clients you have or want, their sectors and their markets. Every exercise then produces a real document for your practice, from your proposal template to your first gap report.

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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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Leadership Specialist Pack

Three courses from Leadership & Professional Practice
  • Certified Food Safety Consultant Program
  • Certified Food Safety Culture Specialist
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Food Safety Consultant + Auditing & Compliance Pack

This course plus two Auditing & Compliance specialisms
  • Certified Food Safety Consultant Program
  • Certified Food Safety Documentation & Recordkeeping Specialist
  • Certified Root Cause Analysis & CAPA Specialist
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    Certified Food Safety Consultant Program Questions

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

    Yes. The Certified Food Safety Consultant 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 Certified Food Safety Consultant Program course is €2499.99, 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 Food Safety Consultant 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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