Food hypersensitivity and allergen training

Gain the knowledge you need to manage allergens effectively

Managing food allergens and other substances that can cause food hypersensitivity can be challenging, but we are here to help.

We provide tutor-led, specific training courses on key aspects of food allergen management, including:

• Food allergen control (including key principles and strategies of assessing and controlling food allergen risks and how they relate to the development of food safety management systems).
• Food allergen cleaning validation and analysis (including interpretation of results and handling unexpected results).
• Food allergen communication and labelling (including an introduction to quantitative risk assessment for deciding whether to apply precautionary allergen labelling).

We provide allergen training courses that enable you to take the RSPH Level 2 (foundation) Award in Identifying and Controlling Food Allergy Risks and RSPH Level 3 (intermediate) Award in Food Allergen Management.

We help businesses enhance their understanding of food hypersensitivity, including food allergy, we also offer courses in a broad range of areas, covering topics such as:

• Food safety management systems
• HACCP
• Cleaning and hygiene
• Food defence and food fraud (TACCP/VACCP)
• Root cause analysis
• Raw material risk assessment
• Primary production
• Validation and verification
• Food law (including labelling)

All courses can be tailored to the needs of your business and can be held either online or at a suitable venue. We can also provide briefings and updates to technical meetings.

Food allergen testing

We offer flexible, bespoke food allergen testing, with interpretation support.