Food Defense Qualified Individual
Essentials Training
April 2026
April 28, 29 and 30
9:00 am to 1:30 pm CST
September 2026
September 8, 9, and 10
9:00 am to 1:30 pm CDT
Learn about these topics in Food Defense Qualified Individual (FDQI) Essentials training:
- Food Defense Awareness
- Intentional Adulteration Rule Overview
- 3 Types of Vulnerability Assessment*
- Key Activity Types
- Fundamental Elements
- Hybrid
- Mitigation Strategies Identification and Explanation*
- Management Components
- Food Defense Plan Preparation*
- Plan Reanalysis*
Participants receive training to perform all 4 roles* that require FDQIs under the 21 CFR 121 – Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration.
This course is entirely instructor-led. The format allows the instuctor to adapt the course to meet the participants where they are on their food defense journey. We can spend more time on concepts the participants find more difficult and use extra examples to ensure understanding.
Multiple training dates available.
Interested in private trainings?
The course is also available for private trainings that are tailored to company specific product mixes. The private format allows the use of facility-specific examples and confidential discussion of process steps and food defense strategy to level set a shared approach to food defense planning and implementation.
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Food Defense Awareness Training
Food Defense Awareness training is an in-person, interactive training suitable for small and large groups. The training lasts about 45 minutes and uses polling, question and answer, and game play to emphasize content and engage the trainees.
The Food Defense Awareness training meets the requirements for employees, and their supervisors, at actionable process steps as required by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration regulation (IA Rule; 21 CFR 121).
We travel to your production facility to provide the on-site training suitable for all levels of production from frontline to leadership. Viritual sessions are available. We also offer licenses to this program through a train-the-training program.
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