The Foreign Supplier Verification Program course
- Duration: 4 hours
- Cost: $199
Create, implement, and maintain a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP).
The Foreign Supplier Verification Program course is designed to teach you how to build an FSVP plan for your facility.
Create, implement, and maintain a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). This course will help your facility meet FDA requirements set out under the FSMA’s Foreign Supplier Verification Program requirements and for importers of Food for Humans and Animals. All documentation is included within the course.
Benefits
The main benefit of the Foreign Supplier Verification Program is to ensure that only safe products enter the facility, but there are a number of other benefits:
- Comply with FDA and GFSI requirements
- Know what to do if there is a recall
- Ensure consistency of the brand
- Ensure the best possible prices and further discounts based on volume buying
- Reduced time shopping for products
- Negotiated warranties, purchasing terms and after-market support
Course Objectives
At the end of this course you should be able to:
- Create FSVP documentation
- Establish foreign supplier specifications
- Conduct a foreign supplier assessment
- Create a foreign supplier registry
- Create monitoring and verification activities
- Create a Foreign Supplier Verification Program
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course you should understand:
- What a Foreign Supplier Verification Program is and what it does
- What legal and industry requirements are for an FSVP
- Risks associated with foreign suppliers
- How to write an FSVP SOP
- How to conduct a foreign supplier interview
- How to approve a foreign supplier
- How to maintain your FSVP and
- How to verify your FSVP
