Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) Training

The Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) for Importers of Food for Humans and Animals regulation of the U.S. FDA applies to all food products grown or manufactured outside the U.S, and brought into the U.S. for consumption. 

FDA determines FSVP compliance through inspections of the U.S. Importer to ensure the Importer has an FSVP for each imported food and each supplier.  Each FSVP must demonstrate how the Importer evaluated, approved, and continues to verify that each foreign supplier is controlling the hazards for each food imported.

Understanding how to proceed can be quite complex because the FSVP regulation has both standard and modified requirements.  One example of complexity is that Dietary Supplements, although exempt from the Preventive Controls Rule are not exempt from the FSVP Rule, but there are many more complexities to be understood.

The live virtual interactive instructor-led Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) Course is offered as an alternative to the  site-based FSVP course: the virtual approach enables multiple half-day sessions as an alternative to the full day & one 4 hour session and is very accommodating for individuals who cannot afford the time to travel for the FSVP course and need time in the office daily. This is the perfect solution for busy managers and executives as well as office personnel! Also, additional team members can participate without disrupting the workplace or incurring travel expenses! The Simple Compliance Solutions course fee includes the $60 FSPCA official certificate.

Rachel Montgomery has provided the FSVP Course since early 2017.  Montgomery has years of experience and understanding of manufacturing and importing with companies over five continents, and has delivered the FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human and Animal Food Training courses since their inception.    She pioneered in mid 2017 with offering the FSVP course live, virtually and interactively to enable Importers to receive training without the time, expense, and hassles of travel.  Participants rave about the meaningful examples Montgomery can share, and we have received excellent feedback about how the participants feel very engaged with the instructor and other participants.

Foreign Suppliers who are exporting to the U.S. need to know more about the FSVP Rule to be able to support their U.S. Customers who are importing. Thus, if you as a foreign supplier would like a very brief taste of the FSVP requirements for US Importers, or if you as an Importer would like your foreign suppliers to have more information, there is a 2-hour module available which I can present virtually as well: FSVP Requirements Module: Ensuring the Safety of Foods Imported into the United States for Human and Animal Consumption. You may contact the instructor if you would like to schedule a presentation of this 2 hour module for your foreign suppliers. Also, the virtual PCQI course is recommended for your foreign suppliers to ensure they have a PCQI to develop and implement their food safety plan.

Note#1:  In contrast to the Preventive Controls (PC) rules for human or animal food, the FSVP rule does not require an FSVP “qualified individual” to attend a training program following a “standardized curriculum” recognized by FDA. Therefore, completing this course is not mandatory; attending the course, however, will help course participants understand the FSVP requirements and how those requirements can be met in their circumstances.

Note#2:  The courses provide a certificate.   FSPCA states the following related to advertising requirements for the courses:  "FSPCA participant courses are NOT certification courses.  Do not use the terms certification or or Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) certification.  The certificates that are issued by the FSPCA for the participant course are certificates of successful completion.  FSPCA does not provide or manage certification."

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The 12-hour Foreign Supplier Verification Programs Training (10 Modules)