CULN6021 - Food Defense, from Farm-to-Fork!

Course Description

This Quality Assurance and Food Safety course provides Foodpreneurs, Agribusinesses, and food industry professionals, with the tools to implement critical food quality and safety protocols. Develop and implement a product management system and food safety protocols for your company. Participants will learn how to develop, create, and implement a product crisis management system and best practices for a “food defense” for their company and farm-to-fork assurances for the community.

Notes

The MFIC Program received $136,692 of a total grant of $9,999,870 from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment & Training Administration.

A Certificate of Completion or Certificate is awarded upon completion of classes.

Instructor
Jennifer Fordyce, teaches High School at Baldwin during the day and is a successful food manufacturer and entrepreneur the remaining hours of the day. In 2015 Jennifer was the 3rd place winner of the MEDB Maui Startup Weekend and according to Jennifer, “would not even have a business if it weren’t for Startup Weekend Maui. I went into this event with an idea and came out with the beginnings of a business plan.”

She holds a Master of Arts degree from Brown University. An experienced instructor she has taught and consulted at the Kihei Charter School in Maui, HI as well as in Providence R.I. She now brings her keen insights and personal experience as a small business owner to Maui’s food manufacturers