Why Allergen Management Is A Challenge

Here are some of the typical situations you might recognize in your current Allergen Management system:

  • Your R&D and Purchase Departments decided to change ingredients and forgot about the change management procedure - AGAIN
  • Your Supplier decided to change ingredients and did not inform you - AGAIN
  • Your Marketing or Sales Department decided to change the labels without a proper review - AGAIN
  • You are trying to cope with all the above mentioned changes to keep your HACCP-system up to date
  • New equipment is installed and now you can update your Cleaning Validation and Verification
  • Your overview of ingredients isn't updated with the latest allergens
  • You are facing challenges with cross-contamination
  • If you hold an IFS certificate and need to meet requirement 4.19 Allergen risk mitigation and requirement 2.3.6.1 hazard analysis, this training will be beneficial. It provides insights into the necessary actions and Best Practices, enabling you to customize the Allergen Management for your organization
  • If you are facing challenges with implementing European legislation Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 and/or U.S. legislation FDA for allergens and/or FASTER Act, 2023, this Mastery Module will help you to implement these requirement efficiently


And there might be many other situations in your facility...

... the question is: How are you keeping track of all these changes? Is everything up to date? Are you 100% sure you are not heading towards a recall?

=> Join our Program and start making a difference in Allergen Management in your organization!

How to Effectively Upgrade Your Allergen Management Approach

What is included in this Mastery Module: Allergens and Allergen Management

  • Required level: Senior QA-professional / QA- manager

  • This Module is A Part Of The Compliance Accelerator Program. This Module Contains ± 2 Hours Of Video Lessons With Explanations HOW You Can Create And Implement A Successful Approach To Allergen Management. Explanations Of HOW To Use The Downloads That You Can Implement.

  • Learn what Allergens might be a Risk for Your Facility and Your End Products

  • Create your overview of the Route Allergens take in Your Facility

  • Create Your Best Practice Cleaning Matrix

  • Know Your Risks regarding Cross-Contamination. And know Your Labelling Risks regarding Allergens

  • You will work on upgrading your Allergen Management system via the downloads that we give you. These downloads and all your information will stay on your computer. You will not share any information with the other participants or with the instructor. Everything you work on will only be visible for you - full confidentiality of your data is guaranteed this way

  • When You Have Finished All The Steps Of This Mastery Module You Can Download Your Certificate

  • As Part Of the Mastery Program You Have Access To The Monthly Open Office Hours. During The Open Office Hours, You Can Ask All The Questions You Have Regarding This Topic To Our Coaches

What You Get in this Mastery Module

Exactly the boost you need HOW to get your Allergen Management System to the next level!

    1. 1. Welcome and Agenda Module Allergen Management - Duration video ± 2 minutes

    2. 2. Preparation video to watch before you go further with the training - Duration video ± 40 minutes

    3. 2a. Map - Have an accurate map at hand during this module

    4. 3. Identify and List all of Your Raw Materials - Duration video ± 7 minutes

    5. 3a. Explanation Download Template List of Raw Materials - Duration video ± 11 minutes

    6. 3b. Explanation Download Use of Macro's - Duration ± 1.5 minutes

    7. 3c. DOWNLOAD: Template List of Raw Materials

    8. 4. Identify Onsite Cross-Contamination - Duration video ± 2 minutes

    9. 4a. Explanation Download Template Onsite Cross-Contamination - Duration video ± 3.5 minutes

    10. 4b. DOWNLOAD: Template Map Onsite Cross-Contamination

    11. 5. Create Your Cleaning Matrix - Duration video ± 5 minutes

    12. 5a. Explanation Download Template Create Your Cleaning Matrix - Duration video ± 5 minutes

    13. 5b. DOWNLOAD: Template Cleaning Matrix

    14. 6. Perform Your Risk Scan Cross-Contamination - Duration video ± 7 minutes

    15. 6a. Explanation Download Template Risk Scan Cross-Contamination - Duration video ± 2.5 minutes

    16. 6b. DOWNLOAD: Template Risk Scan Cross-Contamination

    17. 7. Perform Your Labelling Risk Scan - Duration video ± 8 minutes

    18. 7a. Perform Your Labelling Risk Scan - Duration video ± 2.5 minutes

    19. 7b. DOWNLOAD: Template Risk Scan Labelling

    20. 8. Stakeholder management done the right way - Duration video ± 4 minutes

    21. 8a. Explanation video Checklist Stakeholder Management - Duration video ± 3 minutes

    22. 8b. DOWNLOAD: checklist Stakeholder management

    23. 9. How to get everyone moving towards an effective Allergen Management system - Duration video ± 10 minutes

    24. 9a. DOWNLOAD: Project Plan template for upgrading your Allergen Management system

    25. 10. How to use and create your time line to upgrade your Allergen Management system? - Duration video ± 1,5 minutes

    26. 10a. DOWNLOAD: Time line template to manage the upgrade of Your Allergen Management system

    27. 11. What is next? - Duration video ± 7 minutes

    28. Monthly Open Office Hour / Hora mensual de oficina abierta / Maandelijks open kantooruur

    29. Evaluation Of This Module

About this course

  • $349.00
  • 29 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

Instructors and Coaches

Instructor Bio:

Kitty has spent more than 29 years helping quality professionals become more senior in their jobs and grow to the next level. Kitty’s educational background is food technology. Kitty’s motto is ‘many roads lead to Rome’. Kitty enjoys guiding quality professionals in their work.

Kitty has personally experienced that some managers like to keep their employees “small” and do not want to invest in knowledge or help in overcoming hurdles. All too often, these managers cause their employees to become stressed. As an interim QA manager, Kitty has regularly been able to guide “damaged” teams to work confidently on food safety again, to believe in their capabilities and to stand up for themselves. Kitty enjoys guiding quality professionals and watching them grow as a person and as a balanced and experienced quality professional.

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Kitty Appels

Senior Instructor and Coach

Instructors and Coaches

Instructor Bio:

Rob has spent more than 27 years in the international food industry and has visited over 72 countries for business. Rob holds and MSc in Physics and he also studied Econometrics. Rob enjoys combining his knowledge in quality and food safety with his passion of strategic management. Rob is a frequently speaker at conferences of IFC (Worldbank) and FI GLobal. Over the last 10 years, Rob has worked with a large number of Vice Presidents QA and QA Directors of multinationals, and he enjoys coaching and training quality professionals to help them getting more insight into food safety and how to influence management in their organization.

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Rob Kooijmans

Senior Instructor and Coach

Instructors and Coaches

Instructor Bio:

Consultor / Auditor en Sistemas de Gestión de QA, Seguridad Alimentaria, Gerenciamiento & Evaluación de Riesgos.

Especialista en Aseguramiento de Calidad y Seguridad Alimentaria para industrias alimenticias y agro-industrias capacitado para brindar soluciones prácticas basadas en los más actualizados estándares de Seguridad Alimentaria.

Experiencia personal lograda durante 13 años de trabajo en compañías internacionales productoras de alimentos en Europa y Latinoamérica y más de 12 años trabajando para empresas internacionales de Auditoría y Consultoría en Gerenciamiento y Evaluación de Riesgos. Más de 400 días como auditor líder en empresas productoras de alimentos. Experiencia en desarrollo de co-fabricantes y capacitaciones en temas relacionados con Seguridad Alimentaria.

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Luis Fissore

Instructor y entrenador (Español)

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