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Food Safety Course: Managing Pesticides in Fresh Produce
Food Safety Course: Managing Pesticides in Fresh Produce
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Food Safety Course: Managing Pesticides in Fresh Produce

Highlights

  • Delivered In-Person

  • Full day

  • Beginner level

Description

Course Summary

Managing Pesticides in Fresh Produce training is aimed at Technical Managers who have regular contact with retailers in the UK.

The course will be highly participative and will use practical examples to enable learning to be easily applied to real business situations.

Key learning objectives

  • Know the different types of pesticides, how they work and methods of application

  • Understand EU pesticide legislation, how its implementation affects us now and what is expected in the future

  • Ability to take representative samples for residue testing and interpret results

  • Evaluate laboratories to select the most appropriate and understand how the analysis is conducted

  • Analyse data to develop a residue testing plan and risk-assess suppliers

​Who should attend

  • Technical Managers in Fresh Produce working with UK retailers

  • Those in charge of Supplier Approval in Fresh Produce

​Pre-requisites

There are no entry requirements to this course.

Programme Outline

  • Discovery, Safety and Legislation

  • Testing, Alerts and Laboratory Selection

  • Sampling procedures

  • The Good and Bad of farm visits

  • Certification, GAP, Organics and PPUs

  • Residue Testing Plans and Risk Assessment

  • Crisis management of residue exceedance

  • Knowledge Check Quiz

  • Conclusions & Close

Instructor credentials

This training course is delivered by qualified and experienced trainers. This is our lovely team of trainers.

Dates

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    10 spaces left
    Delivered In-Person in Bedfordshire
    £435+ VAT

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