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PCQI Online Training
There’s more than one way to get trained as a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI), and with ImEPIK, you can do it 100% online.
PCQI Online includes the FDA’s Standard Curriculum and the food safety fundamentals all food processing employees need. PCQI Online is online, completely interactive, and based on real-life food production scenarios.
When you enroll in PCQI Online, you’ll get lessons on:
- cGMPs and HACCP
- Preventive controls (e.g. process, allergen, supply chain)
- Developing a food safety plan (e.g. verification & validation procedures, developing a recall plan, and recordkeeping procedures)
Who Should Take This Course?
This ten-module program is for any personnel in an FDA-regulated food processing facility responsible for the food safety plan.
Typically, managers, supervisors, and quality control leads take this course, as well as those seeking to advance to those positions. However, this is also good training for food safety teams, especially to ensure adequate staff coverage during crises like a pandemic. We’ve had companies of all sizes train multiple PCQIs to ensure that one is available on every shift.
Once you’ve completed the course, you’ll immediately gain access to your completion certificate at no additional cost, and be able to download it instantly.
Other training providers say their courses are the only “official” way to become a PCQI in the eyes of the FDA – this simply isn’t true. The statute that references training explicitly allows for “equivalent” training, which is why ImEPIK has taken the FDA’s Standard Curriculum and created a more convenient online training option.
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| Certificate of Completion | |
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Course Description
ImEPIK’s course is 100% online, which means it can be taken at any time and from anywhere with a reliable internet connection. The course teaches employees what they need to know to comply with the law and produce high-quality, safe food for global consumers.
PCQI Online Includes:
- The FDA’s Standardized Curriculum.
- The latest guidance on FSMA’s PCHF Rule – a lot has changed since the rule’s 2015 release.
- Product-specific content for those making baked goods, produce, dairy, cannabis-infused edibles or ready-to-eat foods. No other PCQI course allows you to customize your course with content specific to the products you make.
The course is interactive and includes narration, animated videos, and the ability to go back and review information missed on assessments. You’ll also be able to download an online study manual covering specific regulations, GMPs, and supplementary material for each module.
The course culminates when trainees develop a food safety plan outline and take the final examination.
Course Modules
Module One
The Food Safety Modernization Act: Advancing Prevention Focused Food Safety Systems
Module Two
Personnel: Roles and Responsibilities for Food Safety
Module Three
Identifying & Evaluating Hazards in the Production Environment
Module Four
Hazard Analysis and The Process Flow Diagram
Module Five
The Written Food Safety Plan
Module Six
Sanitation, Allergen and Environmental Controls
Module Seven
Supply Chain Controls
Module Eight
The Recall Plan and Recordkeeping with Related Rules
Module Nine
Putting it all Together – Building the Food Safety Plan
Module Ten
Food Safety Plan Outline: Final Project
Technology Requirements
- Chrome – should be within two releases of the latest version
- Firefox – should be within two releases of the latest version
- IE – IE 11 and above
- Safari on OS x – should be within one release of the latest version
What does FSMA's Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule Require?
CFR (Code of Regulation_ Section §117.180 (c) (1): “to be a preventive controls qualified individual, the individual must have successfully completed training in the development and application of risk-based preventive controls at least equivalent to that received under a standardized curriculum recognized as adequate by the FDA or otherwise qualified through job experience to develop and apply a food safety system. Job experience may qualify an individual to perform these functions if such experience has provided an individual with knowledge at least equivalent to that provided through the standardized curriculum. This individual may be, but is not required to be, an employee of the facility.”
Each FDA-registered facility must designate a PCQI who is responsible for the development, oversight and management of the Food Safety Plan. The PCQI is required to have training and experience that exceeds existing HACCP-based systems.
FAQs
When we say the course is “100% Online,” we mean that it’s self-paced and does not require you to schedule a virtual classroom session or attend a webinar. Instead, you do the training on your time, whenever you want, and from wherever you and your computer/tablet are located.
Most other PCQI offerings are either in-person courses or are partially online and require scheduling additional sessions to earn your completion certificate. ImEPIK’s course is 100% online and totally self-paced, which means you can avoid strict schedules or limited seating in virtual classrooms.
The FDA doesn’t require that PCQI training be accredited or officially sponsored or endorsed by a specific organization. This course follows the FDA mandated curriculum and is accepted by FDA inspectors and third-party auditors alike.
FDA inspectors and independent auditors alike accept the completion certificate you earn after completing PCQI Online.
You will automatically receive a completion certificate once you pass the final exam and there is no additional cost.
The course is broken up into ten modules that include narration, animated videos, and interactive exercises complemented by an online study manual. By the end of the course, you will have completed practical situations that culminate with developing a food safety plan outline.
Yes, our checkout process allows you to purchase multiple licenses at one time, as well as assign these courses to the correct individuals. Course licenses can also be assigned later – the process is designed to be flexible.
In addition, we have team pricing so that you can purchase multiple courses at a reduced rate. If you have any questions please contact us at support@imepik.com
A Satisfied ImEPIK Customer
ImEPIK’s PCQI Online course provided a good foundational understanding of how to develop and implement a food safety plan from the ground up.
A Satisfied ImEPIK Customer
A New PCQI
Very good value. I learned a lot for my new position.
A New PCQI
A Happy Customer
Definitely worth the value. Self-paced course makes it easy to complete with a busy work schedule.
A Happy Customer
FDA’s curriculum 100% online in just ten modules.
Plus, train when you want!
Special pricing for Food Safety Tech subscribers.