Jun 25, 2024

Washington Winegrowers Association to hold food safety webinar

The Washington Winegrowers Association is scheduling a food safety webinar.

The Winery Sanitation & Food Safety Webinar is scheduled for June 27.

The web seminar is designed to train viticulturists and winemakers on best practices and information necessary for operations to comply with Food and Drug Administration requirements, according to a news release.

The seminar, Winery Sanitation & Food Safety Compliance: Training the Trainer Webinar, is organized by the Washington Winegrowers Association and Washington State University (WSU) Viticulture & Enology, runs from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

“This webinar is a fantastic opportunity for wineries to fulfill the Food Safety Modernization Act training mandate and review Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) that are expected under FDA’s regulatory jurisdiction and differ from state requirements,” according to the release.

Led by WSU’s Thomas Henick-Kling and Tom Collins, the course will help attendees assess their cleaning and sanitizing programs in order to realize where deficits exist and make corrective actions, understand what records need to be kept, how to train all winery workers, and gain valuable insights into how to mitigate costs incurred by poor sanitation in the winery.

This is a brief agenda of the webinar:

• Winery Sanitation Basics including Barrel Hygiene
• Sanitation Verification
• Basic Food Safety Certification Training
• Q&A

Find more information here.