October 10, 11, 2019
Basic HACCP Workshop for Manufacturers in SPANISH
Regular Price: $725, ETP Price $250
Please email: info@superiorfoodsafety.com to Pre-register (space is limited)
Friday, August 30, 2019
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
New Classes Available for Registration
CLASSES AVAILABLE at Napa Valley College
September 19, 20, 2019
Regular Price: $725, ETP Price $250
October 10, 11, 2019
Basic HACCP Workshop for Manufacturers in SPANISH
Regular Price: $725, ETP Price $250
Please email: info@superiorfoodsafety.com to Pre-register (space is limited)
November 13, 14 and 15, 2019
Regular Price: $850, ETP Price $300
CLASSES AVAILABLE at Butte College Training Place
August 29, 30, 2019
Regular Price: $525, ETP Price Email: The Training Place
September 25, 26 and 27, 2019
Regular Price: $725, ETP Price Email: The Training Place
October 16, 17, 2019
Regular Price: $525, ETP Price Email: The Training Place
October 18, 2019
Regular Price: $325, ETP Price Email: The Training Place
November 22, 2019
Regular Price: $325, ETP Price Email: The Training Place
All Food Safety Preventive Controls for Human Food classes are authorized and posted by FSPCA, and provided by Oscar Camacho a FSPCA Lead Instructor.
The fees to attend these classes are subsidized through a joint venture between Napa Valley College-Superior Food Safety and funded by ETP-Employment Training Panel Program of California.
PRICE STARTS AT $180.00 + Administrative Fees PER CLASS (See each link below for details)
Please DOWNLOAD, COMPLETE and SUBMIT the forms below to CMonahan@napavalley.edu before you begin the registration process.
Certification Application
Employment Training Panel
Saturday, August 24, 2019
HACCP IN ONE CLICK: THE SMARTEST WAY TO AUTOMATE FOOD SAFETY
You might believe that it somehow gets easier and faster to create HACCP plans, as well as update existing ones with new information, once you find a groove.
You’d be wrong.
Even if you delegate tasks effectively, keep all your information organized in one place, and create a regular task for updating plans, you’ll still spend countless hours getting everything prepared. That’s countless hours of finding the right documents and records, countless hours double-confirming accuracy to avoid errors, countless hours typing in new information and printing it all out — every single time something in your business changes.
There’s only one way to fight the complexity and time-consuming nature of this task: automate it.
Imagine Creating New HACCP Plans in Seconds
Let’s say you’re reformulating a line of products to replace sugar with honey as a new ingredient. Normally, this would mean a nightmare for updating all your HACCP plans — dozens of hours, at least.
But not for you. You put honey as an ingredient into your software and it automatically suggests hazards you need to include in your HACCP plan based on intelligent algorithms. Once you approve the smart suggestions and begin adding honey to all your reformulated products, the software carries over all the hazards associated with honey to each new product.
You simply click a button, and a new, accurate HACCP plan is generated with all of the relevant changes already filled in automatically for each reformulated product. You don’t have to work through hundreds of pages by hand to make sure you’ve added honey in all the right places. No need to copy and paste hazards hundreds of times.
That’s because Icicle doesn’t fill out paperwork like other food safety solutions. Instead, Icicle creates a dynamic model of your business that understands the relationship between ingredients, allergens, hazards, and regulatory requirements, helps you make those associations, and updates changes automatically through your whole system. That means that it’s not just your food safety staff who see these changes; it’s your QA manager who needs to get your vendor certifications in order, your warehouse team that needs to make sure they ship out product well before its expiration date, and even, if you grant permissions, your auditors and inspectors. Icicle’s one-click HACCP plan does it all for you.
How Icicle’s One-Click HACCP Works
Like most food manufacturers, you’re far too busy for all the work it takes to keep accurate, timely HACCP plans. Even if you somehow manage to make it work, your business growth suffers from all the lost time. Templates and tools alone can’t keep you from spending dozens of hours each month on HACCP-related work because they don’t integrate with your systems and software. You still have to do most of the hard work by hand.
Icicle takes a different approach, creating a single, interconnected ecosystem for your entire business — sales, receiving, food safety, traceability, and beyond. This fully integrated approach paves the way for one-click HACCP plans:
- Your data is universal across all connected departments. Anytime data is uploaded into the ecosystem, like new ingredients or workflows, Icicle automatically updates that data point in every other area of the business so that every department has up-to-date information, saving you hours upon hours of manual adjustments.
- Intelligent algorithms help you identify hazards. Icicle compares your operation to others in our food safety database, the largest in the world, to identify and suggest potential hazards: biological, physical, chemical, and radiological hazards that others face with similar facility types, ingredients, and process flows. This means you never start from scratch, saving massive chunks of time on hazard analysis and research.
- Then you can create HACCP plans in just one click. When everyone’s working within the Icicle ecosystem — normal day-to-day work — you have an ever-updating database that allows Icicle to simply compile your data and smart suggestions to create fully compliant HACCP plans in seconds.
And the great part is, getting your business and team setup within Icicle doesn’t take years. It takes just a couple of months.
When Villa Cappelli came to us, they had been told it an auditor would arrive to inspect their olive oil facility in just six weeks. Their artisanal operation was without a single HACCP plan. Thankfully, we were able to set up an entire HACCP program in that time. With Icicle’s dynamic templates, smart suggestions, and excellent customer support, Villa Cappelli passed their inspection with flying colors.
“Smart suggestions streamlined things and the flow charts made everything clear. This saved me a ton of time and paper. The inspection went very well. All our documents were up-to-date, making us look more professional than I think he expected.”
Steven Crutchfield, Head of Production and Product Innovation for Villa Cappelli
Like Steve quickly discovered, being able to create HACCP plans in just one click turned out to have dramatic impacts on his business. And it can for yours, too.
What One-Click HACCP Plans Mean For Business Growth
When you can create HACCP plans at the touch of a button, it’s not just your food safety program that sees impact, but every part of your business. Here are some of the areas that see the most transformation.
- Faster, easier audits and inspections. Auditors love seeing facilities that automate HACCP plan creation and updates, because it means they’re far more accurate. And when you can pull up plans, automated transparency reports, and food safety records in seconds, you can reduce inspection time by as much as 90%.
- Your customers will trust you more. Food brands love an organized manufacturing partner, and showing them how you master your food safety program takes a huge weight off their shoulders and makes you a low-risk partner.
- More resources to dedicate to growing the business. When you’re not constantly facing clerical and food safety struggles, you and your team are free to pursue the things that matter most to your business.
Take it from Felix Irnich, COO of DaVinci Gelato, who had been told it would take 1-2 years to create a HACCP program from scratch — and who we helped make on in just three months:
“On a day-to-day basis, Icicle saves probably at least one hour per person. Icicle is churning away and running smoothly. There’s no stress, no giant pile of paperwork that needs maintenance. It’s paying for itself, especially by helping us expand into other [markets] easily.”
Felix Irnich, COO of DaVinci Gelato
As regulations become more cumbersome, labor expenses rise, and customer expectations evolve, automated HACCP plan creation and updates will only become more essential. Facilities that stay the by-hand course will inevitably fall behind those who proactively set themselves up for success in this area.
And the best part? You could be making one-click HACCP plans in as soon as four weeks.
Request A Demo Today>>
Superior Food Safety has partnered with Icicle Technologies Inc. to bring Icicle, a smart food manufacturing software, to the food & beverage and the growing industries.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Dont Miss September's Basic HACCP Workshop for Manufacturers!
NAPA: Basic HACCP Workshop for Manufacturers - 2 Day Course #75478
Date And Time
Date And Time
Thu, Sep 19, 2019 –
Fri, Sep 20, 2019
Location
Napa Valley College
2277 Napa Vallejo Highway
BLDG 3000, RM 3004
Napa, CA 94558
Description
In partnership with Superior Food Safety, Napa Valley College is hosting this timely and important workshop.
Through the California Employment Training Panel (ETP), Napa Valley College is able to offer a discount of $475 to qualified companies. Click on the following link - https://tinyurl.com/ybf76a6a and complete application to see if your company is eligible for an ETP discount (please note that an ETP 104 form must also be completed for each attendee from your company). After your forms are completed, please send all forms to Valerie Bible (707) 256-7250 / VBible@napavalley.edu. Once you are certified, you will receive the code to register for the ETP pricing of $250. If you are already ETP certified and need a code, please contact Valerie Bible (707) 256-7250/VBible@napavalley.edu.
Course Description - What You'll Learn:
- Provide the attendee with the tools to build the company’s HACCP food safety program.
- Understand basic principles behind Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).
- Provide the attendee with major government regulatory requirements and industry information.
- Satisfy the training requirement for certification.
Who Should Attend:
Owners, Managers, Chefs, Sous Chefs, servers, and employees of Food Service and Retail business, especially very small, small and medium-sized according to the following non-inclusive list:
- Food Industry Senior Management
- GFSI Leads (SQFP)
- Operation and Production Managers
- Quality Assurance Managers and Supervisors
- HACCP Coordinators
- Supply Chain Management Personnel & Purchasing Managers
- Auditors
- Food Plant and Facility Managers
- Risk Management Managers
- Government and Food Regulatory Personnel
- Food Safety and Quality Management Consultants
Two-Day Course: Thursday, September 19th & Friday, September 20th, 8 AM-5 PM each day.
Oscar Camacho's experience spans the globe and the entire range of the industry. He has over 32 years of experience in the food industry, including ownership of two food processing plants and extensive work with two of the largest food manufacturers in the world. His accounts of food safety successes and failures put accountability into sharp focus. Oscar is a registered FSPCA-Human Foods Lead Instructor and Consultant, PSA-Produce Safety Alliance Lead Instructor, GFCP-Gluten-Free Certification Program Consultant and Trainer, SQF Consultant and Trainer, and a former SQF Auditor. He holds a BS in Biology and an MS in Food Science and Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in Spain. He also holds a Certification in International Management and regularly continues studies in food safety and business administration.
Sunday, August 18, 2019
On-Site Private Classes in English & Spanish and Consulting Services
Classes Available in English & Spanish and Consulting Services
WE OFFER PUBLIC AND ON-SITE TRAINING CLASSES:
- HACCP Workshop
- Implementing SQF Training - Version 8.0 - English and Spanish
- FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Foods
- FSPCA For Human Food Compliance
- Produce Safety Rule Training Official Program
- SQF Quality Systems For Food Manufacturers
- Internal and External GFSI Audits
- Crisis Management
- Gluten-Free Certification Program
- SQF Advanced Practitioner Course
- Prerequisite Programs
WE ALSO OFFER:
Food Safety Consulting Services
We offer On-Site private classes in English and Spanish. Please email us for a quote: info@superiorfoodsafety.com
Thursday, August 15, 2019
JUST ADDED - October Basic HACCP Workshop for Manufacturers in SPANISH!!
October 10, 11, 2019
Basic HACCP Workshop for Manufacturers in SPANISH
Regular Price $725, ETP Price $250
Please email: info@superiorfoodsafety.com to Pre-register (space is limited)
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Register Today for September's Basic HACCP Workshop for Manufacturers
NAPA: Basic HACCP Workshop for Manufacturers - 2 Day Course #75478
Date And Time
Date And Time
Thu, Sep 19, 2019 –
Fri, Sep 20, 2019
Location
Napa Valley College
2277 Napa Vallejo Highway
BLDG 3000, RM 3004
Napa, CA 94558
Description
In partnership with Superior Food Safety, Napa Valley College is hosting this timely and important workshop.
Through the California Employment Training Panel (ETP), Napa Valley College is able to offer a discount of $475 to qualified companies. Click on the following link - https://tinyurl.com/ybf76a6a and complete application to see if your company is eligible for an ETP discount (please note that an ETP 104 form must also be completed for each attendee from your company). After your forms are completed, please send all forms to Valerie Bible (707) 256-7250 / VBible@napavalley.edu. Once you are certified, you will receive the code to register for the ETP pricing of $250. If you are already ETP certified and need a code, please contact Valerie Bible (707) 256-7250/VBible@napavalley.edu.
Course Description - What You'll Learn:
- Provide the attendee with the tools to build the company’s HACCP food safety program.
- Understand basic principles behind Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).
- Provide the attendee with major government regulatory requirements and industry information.
- Satisfy the training requirement for certification.
Who Should Attend:
Owners, Managers, Chefs, Sous Chefs, servers, and employees of Food Service and Retail business, especially very small, small and medium-sized according to the following non-inclusive list:
- Food Industry Senior Management
- GFSI Leads (SQFP)
- Operation and Production Managers
- Quality Assurance Managers and Supervisors
- HACCP Coordinators
- Supply Chain Management Personnel & Purchasing Managers
- Auditors
- Food Plant and Facility Managers
- Risk Management Managers
- Government and Food Regulatory Personnel
- Food Safety and Quality Management Consultants
Two-Day Course: Thursday, September 19th & Friday, September 20th, 8 AM-5 PM each day.
Oscar Camacho's experience spans the globe and the entire range of the industry. He has over 32 years of experience in the food industry, including ownership of two food processing plants and extensive work with two of the largest food manufacturers in the world. His accounts of food safety successes and failures put accountability into sharp focus. Oscar is a registered FSPCA-Human Foods Lead Instructor and Consultant, PSA-Produce Safety Alliance Lead Instructor, GFCP-Gluten-Free Certification Program Consultant and Trainer, SQF Consultant and Trainer, and a former SQF Auditor. He holds a BS in Biology and an MS in Food Science and Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in Spain. He also holds a Certification in International Management and regularly continues studies in food safety and business administration.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Reminder - Register Now for Remaining 2019 Courses!
September 19, 20, 2019
Regular Price $725, ETP Price $250
November 13, 14 and 15, 2019
Regular Price $850, ETP Price $300
All Food Safety Preventive Controls for Human Food classes are authorized and posted by FSPCA, and provided by Oscar Camacho a FSPCA Lead Instructor.
The fees to attend these classes are subsidized through a joint venture between Napa Valley College-Superior Food Safety and funded by ETP-Employment Training Panel Program of California.
PRICE STARTS AT $180.00 + Administrative Fees PER CLASS (See each link below for details)
Please DOWNLOAD, COMPLETE and SUBMIT the forms below to CMonahan@napavalley.edu before you begin the registration process.
Certification Application
Employment Training Panel
Monday, August 5, 2019
Why Icicle Is The Crucial Ingredient For Modern Quality Assurance
In today’s commercial and regulatory environment, your QA department needs the power to be the backbone of your products’ success. Icicle provides a full suite of quality assurance tools that are integrated with production, procurement, logistics, laboratory management, and more so your QA Manager can always gather, analyze, and distribute information to auditors, inspectors, and customers with minimal effort.
Investing in your QA department isn’t just safer and better – it helps you achieve the level of quality you need to secure advanced certifications like SQF and the big customers who require them. Icicle is unparalleled in its ability to model the way your company actually works and adapt to your specific needs so that each individual process is successfully monitored, from farm to fork.
The Basics of Compliance: Automatically Generate Certificate of Analysis
Icicle helps you specify quality parameters for your products, measure them during production, and easily generate CoAs to confirm that quality standards are met.
- Before Production: The first step to quality control and quality assurance is to set parameters for your products. Icicle allows you to create pass/fail (Boolean) quality, numeric specifications to ensure that measured values are within critical and operational ranges, and process specifications to handle specs that include subjective attributes such as “is the color between dark and medium blue?”
- During Production: Icicle utilizes comprehensive automation to ensure that those parameters are met during production, alerting your QA and production managers if there is a problem before or as it occurs, rather than hours too late.
- After Production: Certificates of analysis are automatically generated, confirming quality standards have been met. Proper documentation earns quality certifications, and Icicle documents it all for you.
5 Premium Features to Help You Control and Maintain Food Quality
"If you have a system [Icicle] that alerts you right away to quality concerns, you really can’t put a price tag on it because it makes all the difference for your company.”
–Christopher Foster, Food Safety and Quality Coordinator for Ontario Pride Eggs
Remaining competitive means improving quality, and improvement means change. Icicle makes quality changes painless with features that help test, monitor, and analyze quality measures so you can see what does and does not work.
#1: Automatic Mass Balance Calculations
Automatic mass balance calculations allow you to trace recalled products, ingredients, materials, and packaging throughout the production process, identifying every precursor and finished product that may be affected and showing exactly where each affected item is presently located along with the quantities that need to be retrieved for rework or disposal – all in just seconds. Want to wow your auditors? Give them the answers they need before they finish asking their question, like Paul from P&S Frozen Foods discovered.
#2: QA Dashboard
Time is money, especially when it comes to your QA team. Icicle’s QA dashboard frees up QA time that would be spent compiling data from binders, spreadsheets, or disparate software programs into quality trend reports so that your team can focus on their true mission: improving quality.
Icicle’s QA dashboard is automatically populated with performance indicators including test results, corrective actions, root cause analysis, and preventative measures so that the QA team and company leadership can review a concise report as often as they want. QA can set quality control parameters and the QA dashboard will measure changes over time and clearly outline positive and negative trends. With Icicle crunching the data, your QA team can focus on real-time production and planning for the future, all without sacrificing valuable trending updates.
#3: Supplier Management (or Vendor Management)
Tracking supplier certifications (or vendor certifications) can be a complex and taxing business – and mistakes can cost you. Icicle’s supplier management feature tracks all your suppliers in one, simple location and updates you if your supplier’s certifications have expired, giving you the heads-up you need to pull their ingredients before they can ruin your product. Any changes that are made to any certification are automatically updated everywhere else, so you can provide up-to-date reports upon demand.
For companies looking to expand their business, automated supplier management is essential for any QA department. Food companies like FreeYumm, an allergen-free food processor, use Icicle’s supplier management to stay on top of supplier certification with less labour, more precision, and full confidence. With Icicle’s help, FreeYumm easily achieved their SQF certification and was able to leverage their high level of quality and safety to expand to new markets:
“Once we decided we wanted to expand out-of-province and into the US, we realized we needed a robust tracking system and that it just wasn’t going to be possible without software.”
–Terry Goulah, Vice President of Operations and co-founder of FreeYumm
#4: Smart Inventory Management
Icicle utilizes GS1 barcodes to track inventory, maximizing shelf life and minimizing waste by tracking expiration dates and supplier certifications with just a quick scan. Along with automatic mass balance calculations, Icicle’s inventory management is determined to help you get the most out of your inventory and save you money without compromising quality.
#5: Laboratory Management
Knowledgeable Icicle staff can help you build a customized Icicle’s laboratory management plan for your facility to make sure you don’t miss any tumors. Get way ahead of recalls: the testing lab can upload results into Icicle, providing you with the information you need to avoid dangerous recalls immediately. Results of tests automatically populate in the QA dashboard to show you trends over time, so you can see if the changes are working and tweak quality measures accordingly.
Icicle Improves Food Quality
With its holistic approach, utilizing real-time traceability to stay on top of problems rather than simply document them, Icicle is the answer to improving food quality. If your current food production management technology isn’t capable of setting detailed parameters, monitoring them via automation, testing for quality, and putting the data toward pain-free analysis of your product’s quality all in one central hub, it doesn’t have the legs to take you through the next decade. With all these capabilities and more, Icicle is the high-tech quality catapult your company needs.
Icicle’s award-winning food safety infrastructure has helped several companies earn globally recognized food quality certifications — its contribution to quality is proven.
“At the stage, we were at when we implemented Icicle, I don’t think we would have passed SQF audit with the score we did and that would have lost us millions of dollars in business.”
– Paul Tolnai, Operations Manager for P&S Frozen Foods
If you want your company to grow over the next ten years, you need a system that understands the challenges of quality and safety. The future of food is quality, and the future of quality is automation. The best automation for food production is Icicle. Consumers expect the best, why wouldn’t you choose the best automation to produce it?
Request A Demo Today>>
Superior Food Safety has partnered with Icicle Technologies Inc. to bring Icicle, a smart food manufacturing software, to the food & beverage and the growing industries.
Friday, August 2, 2019
On-Site Private Classes in English & Spanish and Consulting Services
Classes Available in English & Spanish and Consulting Services
WE OFFER PUBLIC AND ON-SITE TRAINING CLASSES:
- HACCP Workshop
- Implementing SQF Training - Version 8.0 - English and Spanish
- FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Foods
- FSPCA For Human Food Compliance
- Produce Safety Rule Training Official Program
- SQF Quality Systems For Food Manufacturers
- Internal and External GFSI Audits
- Crisis Management
- Gluten-Free Certification Program
- SQF Advanced Practitioner Course
- Prerequisite Programs
WE ALSO OFFER:
Food Safety Consulting Services
We offer On-Site private classes in English and Spanish. Please email us for a quote: info@superiorfoodsafety.com
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