Course Description
Speaker:
John Ryan
President , TransCert , QualityInFoodSafety , RyanSystems
Dr. John Ryan holds a Ph.D. in research and statistical methods. He has spent over 25 years implementing preventive control systems for international corporations in Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Mexico and the United States. He was a graduate quality and operations management lecturer at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California and has recently retired from his position as the administrator for the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture's Quality Assurance Division where he won awards for his visionary and pioneering work in traceability technology. He is now the president of Ryan Systems with websites at RyanSystems.com and the SanitaryColdChain.com. His companies provide FSMA training in preventive food safety and quality and certify food transporters to sanitation and temperature control standards. He has published over 40 articles in quality systems and food safety. His latest books now available from Elsevier Press are entitled "Guide to Food Safety during Transportation: Controls, Standards and Practices" (2014) and "Food Fraud" (2015). He can be reached at jryan@ryansystems.com.
Why should you attend?
This Seminar will focus on Food Defense and will detail what an organization needs to have in place in order to safely manufacture, package, and or handle food products. It will cover a broad range of: production types, facilities, and the transportation of goods. This Seminar will highlight key areas of the organization that need to be controlled to ensure that intentional contaminants do not enter the product by potential threats.
Areas Covered in the Session:
• Brief overview of Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), highlighting new prevention focused tools pertaining to Food Defense.
• Overview of the requirements spelled out by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).
• Examination the FDA's definition the term "Food Defense".
• How to prepare and improve an organization to be Food Defense compliant.
• How to harden any facility to improve security.
• Regulatory status of the Food Defense clause and timeline of Agency action.
• What FDA expects from manufacturers and handlers.
• How failure to comply with the guidelines may affect an organization.
Speaker:
Jason Teliszczak
CEO/Founder, JT Environmental Consulting
Mr. Jason Teliszczak is an entrepreneur with a passion for ensuring safety through proper processes and strengthening safety for organizations to make the world a more secure place. After earning a B.S. in Environmental academia and to ensure his vision would not be put to waste, he built his own successful consulting firm, JT Environmental Consulting, and has quickly become an expert within the Safety industries on a large scale. With more than a decade of consulting experience, Mr. Teliszczak assists his clients in setting targets and achieving goals.
Organizations throughout the world, from large corporations within the US to companies and non-for-profits with under 25 employees, utilize Mr. Teliszczak's expertise & knowledge to perform compliance audits, internal audits, and to become certified to many different standards.
Mr. Teliszczak continues to streamline growth within the industry through working closely with industry experts, Registrars, and by updating, incorporating and strengthening new standards. Mr. Teliszczak currently sits on numerous committees within organizations to develop standards for auditing safety.
Mr. Teliszczak continues to stay focused on the ever changing industry by holding many various and pertinent certifications, such as but not limited as: CPP, CSMP, ASHM, HACCP Manager, CESCO, CET.
Agenda
Day 1 Schedule:
Lecture 1:
• Brief overview of Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), highlighting new prevention focused tools pertaining to Food Defense.
• Overview of the requirements spelled out by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).
• Examination the FDA's definition the term "Food Defense".
Lecture 2:
• Regulatory status of the Food Defense clause and timeline of Agency action.
• What FDA expects from manufacturers and handlers.
• How failure to comply with the guidelines may affect an organization.
Lecture 3:
• How to prepare and improve an organization to be Food Defense compliant.
• How to harden any facility to improve security.
Lecture 4:
• How to prepare and improve an organization to be Food Defense compliant.
• How to harden any facility to improve security.
Day 2 Schedule:
Lecture 1:
• Employees: Background checks, training, notifications, etc.
Lecture 2:
• Incident investigation: Evidence, interrogations, corrective actions, etc.
Lecture 3:
• Transportation: Risks, mitigation, vetting
Lecture 4:
• Upstream & Downstream vendors: Risks, mitigation, vetting
Audience
• Quality Manager
• Quality Techs
• Front line Techs
• Security
• Management