Mérieux NutriSciences Canada Online Training Academy

This Implementing SQF System course is designed for those individuals, such as the SQF practitioner, responsible for developing, aligning, verifying, maintaining, and otherwise supporting the site’s SQF food safety System and its culture of food safety. With a focus on continuous improvement, practical activities provide attendees the opportunity to align their existing programs with the SQF Code and build skills that will enable an environment where food safety is a top priority. It is recommended that participants have successfully completed a HACCP training course meeting the definition found in the Glossary of the SQF Code, edition 9 before attending this course. A HACCP course is available on this website. Click here for Mérieux NutriScience's online HACCP course. Click here to view the full course agenda for this virtual course. Note: Students must attend and participate in ALL of the live sessions in order to earn their certificate. Sessions will not be recorded. Requirements: Computer with camera and microphone  Strong internet connection Click here for information about our cancellation policy. A minimum of 5 students is needed to run this course. Read more

Shelf life is the time, under specified storage conditions, during which a food product maintains acceptable quality as defined by specific criteria for critical product attributes.  Being able to determine shelf life accurately is key information for manufacturers and product developers.  Assigning a shelf life that is artificially long risks exposing consumers to undesirable product, with potentially catastrophic damage to brand and product image at minimum.  This short course will give students a basic understanding of shelf life and how a shelf life study is designed.  At the conclusion of this course you will earn a certificate of completion that you can download and keep for your records. There will also be an option to download a PDF copy of the lesson content to keep and use as a reference.  This course will be available to you for 1 year from the date of purchase. Read more

We've updated our popular Smart Sanitation video! In this newly refreshed training video, we review why sanitation is very important for consumer health and shelf life of food products. Factors considered include equipment, employees, packaging materials, excess water, floor mats, buttons/switches, rodents, and pests. Problem areas to focus on include growth niches in seams, floor cracks and drains, ledges, equipment, and absorbent materials; and a sanitation schedule is necessary. The eight steps for proper cleaning and sanitation are taught in this video. Proper cleaning and sanitation are necessary for consumer health, product shelf life and brand confidence. Eight steps for cleaning and sanitation include removal of waste materials, pre-rinse step, cleaning and scrubbing, rinse off detergent, visually inspect for soil, wash and rinse floors, sanitize floors then equipment, remove excess water. This video is ideal for training new employees and as a yearly refresher training for all employees. What's included in your purchase: Smart Sanitation streaming video (English and Spanish) Facilitator guide and student quiz (English and Spanish) Blank certificate to document training Read more

The global nature of our food supply, specifically raw materials and ingredients, necessitates an effective supply-chain management program. Managing your supply chain is a key factor in ensuring that safe, high quality food is being produced and distributed to the consumer. Efforts to focus on food safety in the last decade have left the quality of raw materials and ingredients unaddressed. This short course will examine why having a rigorous supply chain management system that focuses on both safety and quality is essential.  Who Should Take This Course: Food Safety Managers Quality Assurance Staff  Purchasing Managers R&D Personnel   This course will be available to you for 1 year from the date of purchase. A completion certificate will be issued upon successful completion of the course.​ Read more

If you measure something multiple times often you may get different numbers. This is a simple definition of   variability. Variability is also called Uncertainty of Measurement (UM) in ISO references. It is often called ‘lab error’.   This short course is intended to give you a basic understanding of measurement uncertainty in laboratory testing. At the conclusion of this course you will earn a certificate of completion that you can download and keep for your records. There will also be an option to download a PDF copy of the lesson content to keep and use as a reference.  This course will be available to you for 1 year from the date of purchase. Read more