New Internet Training Course on Good Manufacturing Practices
From: Ken Gall (klg9@cornell.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 11:53:00 PDT
Next message: LeeAnn Applewhite: "RE: Species Identification"
To: Seafood Listserve Community
From: Ken Gall, NY Sea Grant and Cornell University
On April 2, 2008, New York Sea Grant (NYSG) and Cornell Cooperative
Extension launched a new Internet-based training course on the Food and
Drug Administration’s (FDA) Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) regulation
for the processing, packing or holding of human food. The course is
designed for supervisors, middle level managers, quality control staff
and anyone else responsible for ensuring that a food processing,
wholesale or warehouse operations meet current GMP requirements.
This GMP regulation, which applies to all FDA-regulated food products,
addresses the basic sanitary controls required for all processing plants,
wholesale or distribution firms and warehouses or storage facilities to
ensure that the food they process, handle or store is safe and wholesome.
The regulation also provides a framework for the state regulations that
may apply to these firms, and other regulations for specific types of
foods.
The new online training course consists of 12 modules covering each
section of the GMP regulation along with an explanation of its intent,
examples and strategies for compliance with these requirements, and
resources for additional information. The course, for which a Spanish
language version will be available by this Fall, is designed to
accommodate a variety of different learning styles. Students can view the
course materials “live” on the Internet, download files to their computer
or use the “audio” feature to hear the course content read to them by a
professional narrator. An innovative interactive feature, called GMP TV,
is used throughout the course to demonstrate important concepts and
conditions that must be maintained in a food processing, handling or
storage operation.
Students can register and pay the $50 course fee online or by mail. A
discount is available for groups who plan to train 20 or more people from
the same company or organization at the same time. To register and learn
more about this new Internet training course go to:
http://gmptraining.aem.cornell.edu. Upon completion of the course,
students will receive a certificate via e-mail. This certificate will be
issued to the individual person who registered for the course, and will
contain the name of the company or organization they are affiliated with
and the date of completion.
New York Sea Grant Specialist Ken Gall led the national team that
developed this course in collaboration with: Steve Kern, Web designer for
the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University;
Debra DeVlieger, national food specialist with the U.S. Food & Drug
Administration in Seattle, WA; Doris Hicks of the University of Delaware;
Dr. Lori Pivarnik of the University of Rhode Island; Dr. Mike Jahncke and
Abigail Villalba of Virginia Tech; Barry Nash and Dr. Dave Green of
North Carolina State University; and Victor Garrido and Dr. Steve Otwell
of the University of Florida. This project was partially funded by a
grant awarded to Cornell University in 2005 from the National Integrated
Food Safety Initiative of the Cooperative State Research, Education and
Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Grant No.
2005-51110-03291).
Ken Gall
New York Sea Grant
146 Suffolk Hall, SUNY
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5002
Phone: 631-632-8730
Fax: 631-632-8216
Email: klg9@cornell.edu
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29
: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 12:00:31 PDT