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Certified Global Food Labeling Specialist (CGLS)

A private, fully customized specialist course in auditing & compliance, delivered 1-on-1 around your schedule and built on your own operation. You finish able to put global food labeling (cgls) skills to work immediately.

The Certified Global Food Labeling Specialist (CGLS) course builds deep, applied competence in global food labeling: regulatory labeling requirements, ingredient and allergen declarations, nutrition labeling, and claims across major markets. 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

    How labelling law works

    Who regulates what in each market, mandatory versus voluntary elements, and the order to check a label in.

  2. 2

    Name of the food and the ingredient list

    The name of the food, the ingredient list, QUID, additives and processing aids.

  3. 3

    Allergen declaration

    Allergen declaration in each market, emphasis rules and precautionary allergen labelling.

  4. 4

    Nutrition declaration

    Formats, rounding, reference intakes and front-of-pack schemes.

  5. 5

    Claims

    Nutrition claims, health claims, 'natural', 'free from', origin and organic.

  6. 6

    Dates, storage, lot codes and quantity

    Date marking, storage and use instructions, lot codes, net quantity and the business address.

  7. 7

    Export labels

    Adapting one product to several markets, bilingual labels and artwork sign-off.

  8. 8

    Label review in practice

    A full review of your own product's label, start to finish.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • InternationalCodex General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods (CXS 1-1985).
  • EURegulation (EU) 1169/2011 on food information to consumers, Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims, Regulation (EC) 1333/2008 on additives.
  • UKThe Food Information Regulations 2014, retained Regulation 1169/2011, and the PPDS rules known as Natasha's Law.
  • US21 CFR Part 101, the Nutrition Facts rules, FALCPA and the FASTER Act for the nine major allergens.
  • CanadaThe Safe Food for Canadians Regulations, the Food and Drug Regulations and CFIA labelling requirements, including the front-of-package nutrition symbol.
  • Australia and New ZealandThe FSANZ Food Standards Code, Standards 1.2.1 to 1.2.8, and Plain English Allergen Labelling.

How We Tailor It to You

Before the first session we ask which products you make and which markets you sell to. Every exercise then uses your own labels and your own markets, so you finish with labels you can use, not examples.

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Auditing & Compliance Specialist Pack

Three courses from Auditing, Documentation & Compliance
  • Certified Global Food Labeling Specialist (CGLS)
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This course plus two Integrity & Supply Chain specialisms
  • Certified Global Food Labeling Specialist (CGLS)
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    Certified Global Food Labeling Specialist (CGLS) Questions

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

    Yes. The Certified Global Food Labeling Specialist (CGLS) 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 Global Food Labeling Specialist (CGLS) course is €799.99, 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 Global Food Labeling Specialist (CGLS) 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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