Food Defence covers both VACCP and TACCP parts of your assessment, starting at the raw materials and working all the way up the supply chain to the end user and where any threats and vulnerabilities are in your supply chain. We have courses that will help to create your risk assessment and site-wide awareness of how your team can have an effect on on-site threats and mitigating issues at goods-in.
Food fraud can be very local It’s easy to think that the greatest risk of food fraud lies in complex, global supply chains involving known higher risk countries. However, recent issues around the fraudulent provenance of meat are stark reminders that food fraud can be very local. The industry has put in significant efforts since …
How to decide which Food Defence course to choose: With the release of the BRCGS V9, there is a requirement for the whole VACCP/TACCP team to be trained on the principles of food defence and also your site-specific risk assessments. Â As we have a couple of options for you, it can be difficult for you …
I can’t believe it’s December already, I hope you’re feeling festive and not too stressed out if your site has a big Christmas peak in production! Here are a few thoughts from 2019 We are almost a year into BRCGS issue 8 (still struggling to get used to the new name!), although some of you …
One of the main questions I get asked at Food Defence and Product Integrity courses is “how does it all fit together?” The terminology can be confusing at the best of times! I’m not a fan of the acronyms VACCP and TACCP for a couple of reasons. Firstly, CCPs should be exclusively used to manage …
VACCP, TACCP and Food Defence – what does it all mean? The amount of jargon being used around this topic isn’t reducing and is still causing confusion. I’m going to try to clear this up for you…here goes! What is VACCP and TACCP? VACCP (Vulnerability Assessment and Critical Control Points) and TACCP (Threat Assessment and Critical Control …
It’s now over 2½ years since Kassy and I wrote our book “Assessing Error Vulnerability for Food Integrity’ and almost 2 years since we began delivering integrity training courses for M&S, along side our own raw material vulnerability (VACCP & TACCP) courses for a wider audience (and yes it does make me feel old!!) What …
What is Live Online Training?Live Online Training has a live tutor training during the course using our learning platform Achieve. The course follows the same programme as the traditional face-to-face course, but it’s just the trainer is remote. We can still provide all the interactive group discussions and exercises via breakout rooms.
To find out more about our Live online training, have a look at our ‘What is Live Online Training?’ guide.