GOOD
MANUFACTURING
PRACTICE
Overview and Training
April 16, 9AM – 10:30AM OR April 16, 1PM – 2:30PM
MWED
44 2nd Ave W.
Kalispell, MT 59901
Good Manufacturing Practice: Overview & Training
Food Manufacturers — are you and your employees up to date on the basics of food safety?
Federal regulations require that food manufacturing employees “receive training in the principles of food hygiene and food safety… as appropriate to the food, the facility and the individual’s assigned duties.” This 90-minute course will provide you and your staff with education in the specific requirements and overall intent of Good Manufacturing Practice, which will help your company:
• comply with federal regulations
• prepare for food inspections and audits
• establish and maintain safe practices for your employees and operations
This training will be offered at NO COST to food manufacturers. Don’t miss this opportunity for essential
training.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
• History and purpose of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
• Personnel GMPs with examples
• Operational and storage practices
• Sanitary Operations
• Sample GMP policies
• Real World examples of GMP practices and determinations
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?
Director/VP Food Safety
Maintenance Managers
Production Supervisors & Leads
Sanitation Supervisors
Plant Managers
Quality Assurance Coordinators & Managers
Safety Managers
Training Supervisors
Lead Technicians
Packaging Supervisors & Managers
Regulatory Personnel
Spaces are limited and this course fills up so RSVP Today to one of these two sessions.
CLAUDE SMITH
Claude Smith serves as the Food & Process Specialist at the Montana Manufacturing Extension Center. He has decades of industry experience with food manufacturers in Montana, as well as with major national companies Pillsbury and Green Giant. While at Pillsbury he was trained in HACCP by several of the individuals who originally created it for NASA. During this time, he wrote HACCP plans for Green Giant facilities and became a USDA consultant on canned vegetable quality and food safety standards. He helped pioneer the use of UV light for sanitizing vegetable canning and freezing process water, and automated product grading systems.
The Montana Manufacturing Extension Center is a statewide manufacturing outreach and assistance center staffed by full-time professionals with extensive experience in manufacturing and business in a variety of industries. Our mission is to grow Montana’s economy by helping manufacturers succeed.
We serve the manufacturers of Montana by helping them assess and improve their manufacturing operations, providing trainings and workforce development, and leveraging research and technological developments at Montana State University to keep manufacturing competitive in the state.
The Montana Manufacturing Extension Center offers Market Research Services for Manufacturers & Businesses, guidance and technical support services to help reasonably predict whether people will buy your product or service, and whether it will be profitable.
