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Certified FSVP Specialist

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 fsvp skills to work immediately.

The Certified FSVP Specialist course builds deep, applied competence in foreign Supplier Verification Program requirements, importer responsibilities, supplier evaluation, hazard review, and verification activities. 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

    FSVP explained

    Who the importer is, what the rule requires and how FDA inspects an FSVP.

  2. 2

    The qualified individual

    The role, the competence it needs and the records that show you have it.

  3. 3

    Hazard analysis for imported food

    Identifying the hazards in each food and deciding whether the foreign supplier controls them.

  4. 4

    Evaluating a foreign supplier

    Performance history, FDA actions, audit results and the food safety system of the supplier's country.

  5. 5

    Supplier verification activities

    Onsite audits, sampling and testing, record review and how often to do each one.

  6. 6

    Modified requirements and exemptions

    Very small importers, dietary supplements, foods from countries with recognised systems and the foods the rule does not cover.

  7. 7

    Corrective action, reevaluation and records

    What to do when a supplier fails, when to reevaluate and the records FSVP requires you to keep.

  8. 8

    Your own FSVP

    Building the programme and the records for one of your suppliers and one imported food.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • USForeign Supplier Verification Programs (21 CFR Part 1 Subpart L), the supply chain program requirements of FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food (21 CFR Part 117) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
  • InternationalCodex General Principles of Food Hygiene (CXC 1-1969), the baseline FDA expects a foreign supplier to meet.
  • EURegulation (EC) 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) 852/2004, the law an EU supplier works under and the starting point for its hazard analysis.
  • UKRetained Regulations 178/2002 and 852/2004, the law a UK supplier meets.
  • CanadaThe Safe Food for Canadians Regulations, and the FDA and CFIA systems recognition arrangement that gives Canadian suppliers modified FSVP requirements.
  • Australia and New ZealandThe FSANZ Food Standards Code and the Australian Export Control Act 2020, and the systems recognition arrangement that covers New Zealand suppliers.
  • GFSI schemesHow a BRCGS, IFS, FSSC 22000 or SQF certificate can serve as an onsite audit under FSVP, and what it does not cover.

How We Tailor It to You

We build the programme on your own import list. You pick one supplier and one food, and by the last session you hold the hazard analysis, the supplier evaluation and the verification records for it, in the form FDA expects.

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  • Certified FSVP Specialist
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This course plus two Auditing & Compliance specialisms
  • Certified FSVP Specialist
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    Certified FSVP Specialist Questions

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

    Yes. The Certified FSVP 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 FSVP Specialist 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 FSVP 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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