Food Labelling and Compliance Workshop

$395.00 ex GST / per person

This interactive workshop has been designed to offer verifiers a practical comprehensive step-by-step guide to the Australia, New Zealand, Food Standards and associated labelling guidance.

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Level

Advanced

Duration

8 Hours

Delivery

Facilitated

Award

Certificate of Competency

Description

This interactive workshop has been designed to offer verifiers a practical comprehensive step-by-step guide to the Australia, New Zealand, Food Standards and associated labelling guidance.

Verifiers are offered a practical approach to label compliance for each type of sale. Although a label review will be conducted on a Kombucha product label, participants are encouraged to be bring along examples of retail labels for review during the workshop.

Participants will receive:

  • A practical comprehensive step-by-step guide to the Food Standards Code (FSC) and associated labelling guidance.
  • Guidance on the key aspects of food labelling for different types of food for sale.
  • Guidance on how to verify a label according to the FSC requirements.

The information provided within this course may be used to demonstrate verifiers learning outcomes as per the requirement of the CPD programmes.

Course Details

Who should attend? Food Safety Officers, Verifiers of Risk-Based Measures

Course level: Advanced

Duration (Course & Assessment): 8 hours

SFS workshops are provided as inhouse training to verifiers. A minimum of 4 attendance is required. Refreshments and meals included within cost of workshop (venue costs not included).

Resources and Downloads:  

  • Labelling and Compliance Resource Links
  • SFS Food Labelling Verification Blank Checklist
  • SFS Food Labelling Verification Completed Example Checklist
  • Verification Criteria and Audit Topics – Food Labelling and Compliance
  • Labelling guidance

Prerequisite Requirements

Participants are required to familiarise themselves with the following documents.

  • Food Standards 1.2.1
  • What is Kombucha?

Participants are encouraged to provide examples of retail labels for review during the workshop. Access to prerequisites on SFS online training portal will be provided post registration and payment.

Certificate Access: 

You will have access to an electronic course certificate on successful completion of eLearning course content and assessment.

Course Objectives

  • Understand the compliance requirements on how food businesses comply with the labelling and composition requirements under the Food Standards Code (FSC).
  • Understand how to navigate the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) website and associated guidance.
  • Understand how to reference the FSC.
  • Understand what information is required on food that is required to bear a label.
  • Understand what information is required when exempt from applying a full label.
  • Understand how to verify a retail label according to the verification criteria, audit topics, FSC and Food Regulations 2015 requirements.

Course Modules

Module 1: Food Standards Australia New Zealand 
  • Navigating the code
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Schedules
  • Code updates
  • Standard 1.2.1
  • Referencing the Code
  • What’s New?
Module 2: Labelling Guidance
  • Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code
  • New Zealand Food Safety
  • Safe Food Services
Module 3: Verifying a Retail Label
  • Characterising ingredients, components, and composition of food
  • Mandatory statements and declarations (including PEAL requirements)
  • Food identification
  • Statement of ingredient
  • Food additives
  • Date marking of food for sale
  • Direction for use and storage
  • Nutrition, health & related claims
  • Validating claims
  • Nutritional information requirements

Course Assessment

Following the completion of the workshop, participants are required to complete an assessment.

Participants are required to achieve 80% correct answers to demonstrate their understanding of the food labelling requirements.

Those participants that fail to achieve this required pass rate will have the opportunity to discuss potential areas of improvements with Karen Perry at Safe Food Services.

Technology

Participants are requested to bring a device that has access to a USB dock. A USB memory stick will be provided with course information to be accessed during the workshop.

FAQs

You will receive an email detailing the purchase of the course and instructions for accessing the course once payment has been confirmed. If payment has been made by credit card, you will have immediate access to YOUR COURSES via the MEMBER LOGIN. Please enter your username and password when prompted which will direct you to SFS training protal. If payment is by invoice, the invoice amount is required to be paid prior to access to your YOUR COURSES.

Course registration will be confirmed directly via email with Karen Perry. Attendees will be invoiced for payment of workshop prior to accessing the workshop prerequisites.

You will receive an email following confirmation of attending workshop. This email will include instructions for accessing the course prerequisite requirements in the training portal. You can access the training portal via the SFS website in MEMBER LOGIN area or by clicking on the link provided in the email. Please enter the username and password from the email provided in the MEMBER LOGIN area which will provide you access to YOUR COURES on the SFS training portal.

Yes. Please click on the course title in YOUR COURSES which includes all prerequisite instructions and requirements.

Yes. The course content and assessment can be viewed on most operating systems including Mac, Windows inclusive of apple and android mobile devices.

You can view the Course information through Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc. We have received some feedback that Internet Explorer offers the best viewing with some glitches being experienced with Chrome.

It is recommended to download Adobe PDF reader to offer the best quality on reading PDF resource information however this is not a requirement.

Audio is only required for eLearning courses that may be provided as part of a prerequisite requirement. Most prerequisite requirements are read only documents.

Participants are required to complete a multi-choice assessment and achieve an 80% pass rate to successfully complete the course.

You have 3 attempts to take the assessment to achieve an 80% pass rate.

Following successful completion of the course, you will have access to an electronic course certificate which can either be downloaded following your assessment or you can return to your PROFILE page on YOUR COURSES which maintains a copy of your certificate per purchased course.

Yes. Go to YOUR COURSES, click on the blue arrow to the right of each course title. The answers provided for each assessment questions can be found under Statistics.

Attendees will gain access to the prerequiste requirements a minimum of 2 weeks prior to attending the workshop and will retain access to course content for a further 30 days post workshop.

Participants are requested to bring a device that has access to a USB dock. A USB memory stick will be provided with course information to be accessed during the workshop.

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