FDA Basic Level Courses
HACCP
HACCP
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to the hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) system.
Participants will be able to recognize the principles of HACCP.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Principles of HACCP, Prerequisite Programs, and Preliminary Steps in the Development of a HACCP Plan. Learn More
Course length: 2 hours
Cost: $119
Other Basic Level Courses
Allergens
An overview of food allergens, including labeling requirements, preventive controls, and societal impact.
Participants will be able to recognize the control of allergens in relation to food safety.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Labeling Requirements, and Control Measures. Learn More
Course length: 1 hour
Cost: $109
Biosecurity
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to controlling disease transmission between people, animals and plants.
Participants will be able to identify the prevention or control of diseases related to the interactions of people with agricultural animals and plants.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Transmission, Prevention Methods, Biosecurity in Practice: Sanitation, and Policies. Learn More
Course length: 1 hours
Cost: $149
Data and Information Systems
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to systems used by regulatory agencies to store, process, and manage data and information.
Participants will be able to identify examples of internal and external data and information systems.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Collaborative Information Management Systems, Data Management, Access and Control, and Regulatory Applications and Software. Learn More
Course length: 2 hours
Cost: $149
Inspections, Compliance, and Enforcement
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to ensuring regulatory compliance through inspection and enforcement activities.
Participants will be able to recognize compliance activities as they relate to the safety of human and animal food programs.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Jurisdiction, Inspection Classifications, Inspection Tools, Inspection Techniques, Pre-Inspection, Inspection Process, Post-Inspection, and Enforcement Measures. Learn More
Course length: 4 hours
Cost: $149
Investigation Principles
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to conducting an investigation of a feed or food safety-related event.
Participants will be able to describe an investigation.
Topics covered in this course include Foundations, Communication, Agency Collaboration, Investigation Skills, Pre-investigation, Investigation, and Post-investigation. Learn More
Course length: 3 hours
Cost: $149
Labeling
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to labeling requirements, and the components of human and animal food product labels.
Participants will be able to recognize label requirements.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Labeling Components, Labeling Laws and Regulation. Learn More
Course length: 1 1/2 hours
Cost: $149
Personal Safety
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to hazards encountered by regulators, and appropriate protective actions to mitigate hazards.
Participants will be able to recognize safe practices based on assessment of risk.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Chemical Hazards, Equipment Hazards, and Physical and Environmental Hazards. Learn More
Course length: 1 1/2 hours
Cost: $119
Professionalism
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to ethics, integrity, and personal conduct during job-related activities.
Participants will be able to exhibit the use of integrity and positive interpersonal conduct in the performance of professional and personal activities.
Topics covered in this course include Foundations, Ethics, Conduct, Personal Management, Communication, and Interpersonal Skills. Learn More
Course length: 3 hours
Cost: $149
Recalls
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to the process of removing a product from commerce.
Participants will be able to identify the recall process in regulatory programs.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Risk Assessment, Documentation, Communications, Recall Process, and Product Disposition. Learn More
Course length: 2 1/4 hours
Cost: $149
Sampling
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to feed and food sample collection, and the role of the laboratory.
Participants will be able to exhibit introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to protocols when collecting samples.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Sampling Methodology, Procedures, and Laboratory Activities. Learn More
Course length: 2 hours
Cost: $109
Traceability
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to tracking feed and food throughout the supply chain.
Participants will be able to recognize the role of product tracing in human and animal food safety programs.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Making the Case for Initiating Product Tracing, Supply Chain, and Product Tracing Process. Learn More
Course length: 1 1/2 hours
Cost: $119
Biological Hazards
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to biological hazards, focusing on sources of contamination, growth factors, and control methods.
Participants will be able to explain the properties of biological hazards.
The topics in this course include Foundations, Biological Hazards of Concern, Growth Factors, Sources and Pathways, and Control Factors. Learn More
Course length: 3.25 hours
Cost: $149
Communication Skills
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to effective communication in the regulatory field.
Participants will be able to recognize the skills required for an effective communicator in the regulatory field.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Skills, Situational Awareness, and Policies. Learn More
Course length: 2 hours
Cost: $149
Environmental Hazards
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to environmental hazards focusing on sources of contamination and associated control methods.
Participants will be able to define the properties of environmental hazards.
Topics in this course include Foundations of Environmental Hazards, Environmental Hazards of Concern, Sources, Routes, and Pathways, and Control Factors. Learn More
Course length: 2 hours
Cost: $109
Imports
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to the regulation of feed and food products grown, produced or manufactured outside of or returned to the U.S.
Participants will be able to identify the import process in regulatory programs.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Laws and Regulations, Entry Process, Inspection, Investigation, Compliance and Enforcement Actions, and Import Fraud. Learn More
Course length: 3 hours
Cost: $149
Integrated Food Safety System
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to the concept of a national collaborative and cooperative network of federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial feed and food protection agencies working in concert to protect the U.S. feed and food supply.
Participants will be able to recognize how collaborative interrelationships of regulatory agencies promote and protect public health in a global environment.
Topics in this course include Foundations of an Integrated Food Safety System, Stakeholders of an IFSS, Supporting Stakeholder Collaboration, Program Standards, and Sustainability. Learn More
Course length: 2 hours
Cost: $119
Jurisdiction
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to various regulatory agencies and their authority over feed and food.
Participants will be able to recognize which agencies have authority to conduct specific regulatory activities.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Law, Crossing Boundaries, and Interagency Agreements. Learn More
Course length: 2 1/2 hours
Cost: $109
Laws, Regulations, Policies, and Procedures
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to the system of federal, state, and local laws that provide the authority to regulate feed and food, and associated policies and procedures.
Participants will be able to recognize legal authority to conduct regulatory activities.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Laws, Regulations, Policies and Procedures, and Guidance. Learn More
Course length: 2 hours
Cost: $109
Preventive Controls
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to measures implemented by feed and food manufacturing facilities to ensure feed and food safety.
Participants will be able to describe the principles of preventive controls.
Topics covered in this course include Foundations, Food Safety Plans, Hazard Analysis, Monitoring Preventive Control Programs, Corrective Action Plans, Verification Procedures, and Recordkeeping. Learn More
Course length: 2 hours
Cost: $109
Public Health Principles
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to how regulatory agencies promote health and prevent and control feed- and food-related illness.
Participants will be able to recognize basic public health concepts.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Ten Essential Services, and Public Health Policy. Learn More
Course length: 1 hour
Cost: $119
Regulatory Foundations
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to the elements of feed and food regulatory programs.
Participants will be able to exhibit introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to the elements of feed and food regulatory programs.
Topics covered in this course include Foundations, Laws and Regulations, Feed/Food Protection Agencies, Program Standard Areas, IFSS, and Mutual Reliance (Recognition and Reciprocity). Learn More
Course length: 3 1/4 hours
Cost: $149
Sanitation Practices
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting, and the importance of facility and equipment sanitary design.
Participants will be able to exhibit introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to the importance of sanitary design and practices.
Topics include foundations of Sanitation, Cleaning, Sanitizing, Disinfecting, Sanitary Engineering, and Educational Resources. Learn More
Course length: 3 1/2 hours
Cost: $149
Transportation
Introductory knowledge, skills, and abilities related to preventing contamination of feed and food during transport.
Participants will be able to describe how transportation affects human and animal food safety.
Topics in this course include Foundations, Transportation Methods, Inspections, Security, and Product Safety. Learn More
Course length: 1 3/4 hours
Cost: $109
Bundles
Full Basic Level Curriculum: all 23 courses at a bulk discount price of $2,330
Food Systems Hazards: Allergens, Biosecurity, Biological Hazards, Environmental Hazards, and Public Health Principles for $508
Food Establishment GMPs: Labeling and Sanitation Practices for $206
Preventive Systems: HAACP and Preventive Controls for $182
Supply Chain Controls: Imports, Recalls, Traceability, and Transportation for $421
Regulatory Soft Skills: Communication Skills, Data and Information Systems, Personal Safety, and Professionalism for $453
Regulatory Foundations: Integrated Food Safety System, Jurisdiction, and Regulatory Foundations for $302
Applied Regulatory Principles: Inspections, Compliance, and Enforcement, Investigation Principles, Laws, Regulations, Policies, and Procedures, and Sampling for $413
Online courses for the National Curriculum Standard designed for the Integrated Food Safety System are available at no cost to regulators (FDA, State, Local, Territorial & Tribal (SLTT)) on the FDA's Learning Management System.