IFSH offers courses, webinars, and symposiums in food safety, such as Better Process Control School (BPCS), Juice HACCP, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and FSMA.
2024 Training Courses
April 17-18 - Sprout Grower Blended Course Part 2. Details here.
May 21-22 - Sprout Grower Blended Course Part 2. Details here.
July 25-26 - Juice HACCP Training. Details here.
Juice HACCP Alliance
The Juice HACCP Alliance was formed through the voluntary participation of industry, government, and academic members interested in guiding the juice industry to the higher level of food safety assurance provided by HACCP. The group was coordinated through the efforts of the National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST), at Illinois Tech, with the support of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The first task of the alliance was to produce the manual for a juice training curriculum. Much of the curriculum material originally appeared in the document “HACCP: Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Training Curriculum”, developed by the Seafood HACCP Alliance for Education and Training. Donn Ward of North Carolina State University chaired the Editorial Committee made up of HACCP and seafood specialists from around the nation. The Juice HACCP Alliance was granted permission to use these materials from the Seafood HACCP Alliance.
Due largely to the efforts of National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF), the concept of HACCP is becoming standardized throughout the nation, and due to CODEX harmonization, throughout the world. It is expected that future revisions of the juice HACCP curriculum will parallel the NACMCF standards. From the beginning, it was the intention of the Juice HACCP Alliance to harmonize with HACCP training programs provided for the seafood and dairy industries. Future commodity-specific training programs are encouraged to focus on HACCP, based on the NACMCF principles, followed by orientation to the particular needs of the commodity. This will facilitate future training and will allow the use of alternative delivery systems for training in HACCP.
To learn more about what's in the training, view the Juice HACCP Training Curriculum.
This Juice HACCP training manual is the standard curriculum in the FDA Juice Guidance document.
Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA)
The Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) is a broad-based public-private alliance of key industry, academia, and government stakeholders. It was established in late 2011 by a grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Illinois Tech’s Institute for Food Safety and Health (IIT IFSH).
The Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) is the most trusted source of education and training programs for U.S. food manufacturers, importers, foreign suppliers, and food safety professionals around the world wanting to understand and use one or more of the prevention-oriented standards of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
The mission of FSPCA is to support safe food production by developing and delivering educational programs that assist the food industry in complying with the preventive controls regulations that have been promulgated in response to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
To learn more about the FSPCA, please visit the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) Website
The FSPCA manages the Technical Assistance Network (TAN) that provides technical assistance to industry, academia, and others regarding training, and scientific-technical questions related to Preventive Controls of human food and animal food regulations. To learn more about becoming an FSPCA Lead Instructor, or to submit a scientific-technical question to the TAN, please visit the FSPCA Technical Assistance Network (TAN)
Sprout Safety Alliance (SSA)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in cooperation with Illinois Tech’s Institute for Food Safety and Health (IIT IFSH), created the Sprout Safety Alliance (SSA) in 2012 to enhance the industry's understanding and implementation of best practices for improving sprout safety. The SSA develops a core curriculum and training and outreach programs for stakeholders in the sprout production community.
The Sprout Safety Alliance (SSA), a public-private alliance, develops a core curriculum, training, and outreach programs for stakeholders in the sprout production community to enhance the industry's understanding and implementation of the requirements in the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule, and best practices for improving sprout safety.
The Alliance is composed of the food industry, academia, and members from federal, state, and local food protection agencies. It is funded by a grant from the FDA to IIT IFSH, a nationally recognized leader in food safety, food defense, and nutrition science and research. To learn more about the SSA, please visit the Sprout Safety Alliance (SSA) Website
The SSA participates in the FSPCA Technical Assistance Network (TAN) that provides technical assistance to industry, academia, and others regarding training and scientific-technical questions connected with Sprout Safety. To learn more about becoming a SSA Lead Instructor, or to submit a scientific-technical question to the TAN related to Sprouts, please visit the SSA Technical Assistance Network (TAN)