Why Attend This Training Course?

In this fun and animated course, you will learn about food borne illness, how to prevent it and how to train employees in food sanitation. It is imperative that everyone in your organization from the owner, to the manager to all your employees learn the basic food safety practices for preparing and serving food. you will gain basic understanding on how to analyze and control potential hazards in your process to ensure safe food handling from farm to fork and stable to table. This course will provide you with the tools needed to go back to your facility and build your HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) plan into your food safety program, better understand the prerequisite programs and HACCP principles.
The aim of this course is to find out how to maintain the safety and security of the food available for consumption by knowing the nature of the food and its components, the changes that occur to it and how to protect it from undesirable changes in order to reach safe healthy food on the basis of applied scientific health.

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What Is The Training Course Methodology?

This training course methodology depends on enabling participants to interact and exchange experiences, explore their competencies and achieve their career aspirations, using forward-thinking training arts, such as theoretical lectures and/or open discussion to exchange opinions and experiences, scenarios, innovative thinking brainstorming. Participants will receive an agenda including training material as a reference, in addition to some extra notes and booklets. 

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Who Should Attend This Training Course?

This training course is suitable for all employees in the field of food safety and security and those responsible for quality control in the food industry.

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What Are The Training Course Objectives?

• Increase understanding of food issues faced in disasters

• Increase understanding of the role of environmental health practitioners in addressing food safety issues

• Be able to identify key response partners

• Increase understanding of the basic elements of food safety

• Practice and demonstrate basic skills for assessing food safety

• Identify key messages for the public, industry, and response partners

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What Is The Training Course Curriculum?

Introduction to Basic Terminologies

• Food ingredients

• Major ingredients (Carbohydrate - fat - protein)

• Minor ingredients (Mineral salts - fibers - vitamins)

• Changes in food

• Case study (I) 

Corruption

• Biological: By (bacteria - yeast - fungi)

  • Enzyme: By enzymes that analyze the major components of food

  • Chemotherapy: By interactions in food

• Infestation of insects and rodents

• Natural by drying food through loss of moisture

• Case study (II)

Poisoning

• Bacterial source

• Mycotoxins

• Chemical substances

• Natural toxins

• Environmental pollution to food safety (Air - water - agricultural - thermal - radiation - pesticides)

• Food borne diseases and how to avoid infection

• Case study (III)

 Basics of Food Conservation

• Temporary conservation

• Permanent conservation

• Analysis of samples during food processing (cooking phase)

• Analysis of samples before direct food delivery (final stage)

• Evaluation of food safety: (Natural - chemical - sensory - microbial - vital)

• Case study (IV)

Handling Health Conditions and Consumption of Food

• Storage of raw materials and processed foods

• Food security and safety guidelines

• Fresh food: (Vegetables - fruits - meat - fish - poultry - oils and fats - milk)

• Processed Food: (Fast food - meat products - canned - frozen - dried - concentrated - bakery products - poultry products - salted - dairy products)

• A brief overview of organic and ​​genetically engineered foods

ACAD Professional Certificate - APC

ACAD Training & Consulting uses the power of its network to bring about positive, tangible change. We champion the training courses profession and the interests of individuals, engaged in that profession, for the benefit of all. ACAD Professional Certificates are designed for those who are enthusiastic to challenge themselves to reach the extra mile. Participants who fully attend an APC course and successfully pass the exam on the last training day, will receive an ACAD Professional Certificate (APC). APC are regionally recognized and can be esteemed when applying for more senior roles in Egypt and MENA region.

Exam Details:
Duration: 1 hour | Multiple Choice | Closed book | Pass mark: 65%