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[Jenny]

Dear All:

Tomorrow, I will attend West Pack show, does any of you has any particular question for any supplier? I can ask them for you.

Jenny

[Simon]

Dear All:

Tomorrow, I will attend West Pack show, does any of you has any particular question for any supplier? I can ask them for you.

Jenny

I'm interested in hearing about companies who offer food safety / HACCP type training courses specifically for packaging companies in the USA. If there are any of these organisations there I would love some contacts Jenny.

Thanks,
Simon

[Jenny]

Simon:

Could you tell me if the package intend to use in what industry; food or pharmaceutical? If it's pharmaceutical products, I got regulatory specialist which can advice you on HACCP. The company name is Regulatory specialists, Inc. you can visit their website at www.regulatoryspecialists.com 3722 Ave. Sausalito, Irvine, CA 949-262-0411.

Best regards,
Jenny

[Simon]

Simon:

Could you tell me if the package intend to use in what industry; food or pharmaceutical? If it's pharmaceutical products, I got regulatory specialist which can advice you on HACCP. The company name is Regulatory specialists, Inc. you can visit their website at www.regulatoryspecialists.com 3722 Ave. Sausalito, Irvine, CA 949-262-0411.

Best regards,
Jenny

No sorry Jenny it's food.

[Jenny]

Simon:

If it's food, I couldn't find even one. I try to find one for my company too, but there's none. They said food regulations are pretty easy compared to pharmaceutical products But I know SGS also can help you with HACCP? Have you try SGS?

Jenny

[Charles.C]

Dear Jenny,

I suspect the delayed response indicates that some calculations are being made. FREE information was perhaps a major ancillary objective, SGS are undoubtedly competent but rarely cheap

Rgds / Charles.C

[Simon]

If it's food, I couldn't find even one. I try to find one for my company too, but there's none. They said food regulations are pretty easy compared to pharmaceutical products But I know SGS also can help you with HACCP? Have you try SGS?

Hi Jenny, I think maybe I've not explained myself too well.

I'll try again.

I wanted to know what organizations (if any) in the USA provide GMP / HACCP educational training materials specifically for the packaging industry. The reason I want to know this is because my company publishes this type of training for packaging companies and so far I have been unable to find similar training materials anywhere in the world.

I find this a little hard to work out as our training materials have been very popular in the UK so there is definitely a market.

Maybe there is not the same requirement for this operator training in the USA. Would you expect your packaging suppliers to train their employees in this area Jenny?

Regards,
Simon

[mkratz23]

Simon, our company offers training in SQF 1000 & 2000 thus including the packaging industry. These courses tend to draw attention from not only packaging companies but grocery stores as well. Walmart is looking into this too.
http://www.bsiameric...ards/SQF.xalter

Hope I have been of some help. We will be in Washington D.C at the Food Safety Show for those that are interested.

[Simon]

Simon, our company offers training in SQF 1000 & 2000 thus including the packaging industry. These courses tend to draw attention from not only packaging companies but grocery stores as well. Walmart is looking into this too.
http://www.bsiameric...ards/SQF.xalter

Hope I have been of some help. We will be in Washington D.C at the Food Safety Show for those that are interested.

Thanks Michael, I was thinking more of training materials that explain to workers the hazards in their workplace and what hey need to do to minimise these risks. And specifically for packaging companies.

[Jenny]

Dear Simon:

Yes!!! I'd love to see our packaging suppliers aware of hygiene/GMP training, and that's what we're trying to enforce all of our packaging suppliers to do follow GMP/personal hygience and HACCP implement program. Right now FDA doesn't require packaging industry to conduct HACCP/GMP but I've heard since last year that they are working on the new regulation try to enforce distributor and food-related industries has to implement HACCP program. Does EU has regulation on HACCP implement program for packaging company?

I think I probably refer your link to our packaging suppliers, just for their guideline if they need to study some material. So far what I've known in USA, I fount one company, ASI, offers educational /training materials regarding on GMP/HACCP in general aspects of food industry and related industry not particular just for packaging industry specifically.

check this out http://www.asifood.com/edumat.html and this is for your reference: http://foodsafety.ca...files/frame.htm

Regards,
Jenny :)

[Simon]

Yes!!! I'd love to see our packaging suppliers aware of hygiene/GMP training, and that's what we're trying to enforce all of our packaging suppliers to do follow GMP/personal hygience and HACCP implement program. Right now FDA doesn't require packaging industry to conduct HACCP/GMP but I've heard since last year that they are working on the new regulation try to enforce distributor and food-related industries has to implement HACCP program. Does EU has regulation on HACCP implement program for packaging company?

The EU regulates food contact packaging materials, but not how they are manufactured e.g. HACCP / GMP. What we have in the UK is the BRC Global Standard - Food Packaging standard, which was written by the retailers, food producers and packaging companies to standardise the GMP requirements for packaging producers and also to reduce the costs of customer audits. There are hundreds of packaging companies registered to the standard in the UK and actually throughout the world. If you want to know more you can read about the standard here: Clicky

I think I probably refer your link to our packaging suppliers, just for their guideline if they need to study some material.

That would be great thanks Jenny.

Regards,
Simon

[Charles.C]

Dear Simon,

This organisation / project might be of some interest to you although I'm a bit puzzled as to the fact that some of the internal items seem of rather non-recent date -

http://www.pac.ca/se...html#brandowner

Rgds / Charles.C

[Simon]

Dear Simon,

This organisation / project might be of some interest to you although I'm a bit puzzled as to the fact that some of the internal items seem of rather non-recent date -

http://www.pac.ca/se...html#brandowner

Rgds / Charles.C

Hi Charles, I am aware of the above and I have had some contact with them on training materials. I believe the standard is similar (in intent) to the UK BRC Packaging Standard.

Regards,
Simon