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Certified IFS Food Internal Auditor

A private, fully customized IFS Food internal auditor course, delivered 1-on-1 around your schedule and built on your own system. You finish able to plan and run internal audits and write nonconformances that hold up under third-party scrutiny.

The Certified IFS Food Internal Auditor course trains you to audit a IFS Food system with confidence: the IFS Food requirement chapters, the KO requirements, and the scoring system. It is delivered 1-on-1, in English, and customized to your products, processes, and system.

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

    IFS Food Version 8 for the internal auditor

    The six chapters, the 10 KO requirements, the scoring system and what the standard says the internal audit must cover.

  2. 2

    The internal audit programme IFS expects

    Scope, frequency, auditor independence and competence, and the link to management review.

  3. 3

    Auditing governance and the management system

    Chapters 1 and 2: commitment, food safety culture, documentation and the HACCP system.

  4. 4

    Auditing resources and operations

    Chapters 3 and 4: hygiene, training, specifications, traceability, allergens and food fraud.

  5. 5

    Auditing measurement, improvement and food defence

    Chapters 5 and 6: internal inspections, calibration, complaints, recalls, corrective action and the food defence plan.

  6. 6

    Evidence on the floor

    Observing, interviewing, sampling records and running the trace test the IFS auditor runs.

  7. 7

    Scoring and reporting the IFS way

    A, B, C, D, Major and KO, writing the deviation, the corrective action plan and the deadlines.

  8. 8

    A full internal audit of one chapter at your own site

    You audit one chapter of the standard at your own site, score it and report it in IFS format.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • IFS FoodIFS Food Version 8, the IFS doctrine and the IFS requirements for the internal audit programme.
  • InternationalISO 19011:2018 for auditing method and ISO 9001:2015 clause 10.2 for corrective action.
  • GFSI schemesGFSI benchmarking, and how IFS scoring compares with BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9, FSSC 22000 Version 6 and the SQF Food Safety Code.
  • EURegulations (EC) 178/2002 and 852/2004, the law an IFS auditor expects an EU site to meet.
  • UKRetained food law and the Food Safety and Hygiene Regulations.
  • USFDA FSMA Preventive Controls (21 CFR Part 117), for sites selling into the US.
  • CanadaThe Safe Food for Canadians Regulations.

How We Tailor It to You

We use your own IFS documents, your audit calendar and your last report from the certification body. Every scoring exercise uses findings from your site, so you learn to grade the way your auditor will.

Take This Course as Part of a Bundle

Combine this course with the rest of the IFS Food track, or with the specialist courses that matter most alongside it. You get more skills and one certificate-backed path for less than buying the courses separately.

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IFS Food Complete Track

All three levels of the standard
  • Certified IFS Food Internal Auditor
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This course plus two matched specialisms
  • Certified IFS Food Internal Auditor
  • Certified Allergen Control Specialist
  • Certified Food Fraud Prevention Specialist
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    Certified IFS Food Internal Auditor Questions

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

    Yes. Confi Food's Certified IFS Food Internal Auditor is delivered entirely 1-on-1 with a dedicated instructor, online and live, and scheduled around your working hours. The major providers run this as a fixed-date group course. Confi Food builds it around your own site and system from the first session.

    The Confi Food Certified IFS Food Internal Auditor is €499.99, delivered 1-on-1 and fully customized. It can also be taken in a bundle with the rest of the IFS Food track, or with matched specialist courses, at a lower combined price. Comparable courses from large group-course providers are typically priced higher and delivered to a shared classroom on fixed dates.

    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 IFS Food Internal Auditor 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.

    The course runs over 2 to 3 weeks of private 1-on-1 sessions, scheduled around your working hours so it fits around production and audit activity instead of interrupting it.

    Start the Certified IFS Food Internal Auditor

    Enrol now and start with a session mapped to your site, or book a free consultation first.

    Pay in two instalments or lesson by lesson, buy as a company on invoice, or claim 30% off as a graduate.