Course curriculum

    1. Food Fraud Masterclass Recording

    1. Lesson 1.1 — What Food Fraud Is

    2. Lesson 1.2 — VACCP, TACCP and HACCP

    3. Lesson 1.3 — Where a Food Fraud Assessment Is Required

    4. Module 1 Implementation Activity: Understanding Food Fraud

    1. Lesson 2.1 — Adulteration and Its Forms

    2. Lesson 2.2 — Deception: Mislabelling, Diversion and Counterfeiting

    3. Lesson 2.3 — What Is Happening Now, and Case Studies

    4. Lesson 2.4 — Why Food Fraud Matters

    5. Module 2 Implementation Activity: The Types and Why It Matters

    1. Lesson 3.1 — Form Your Team and the Four Steps

    2. Lesson 3.2 — Step One: Scan

    3. Lesson 3.3 — Step Two: Assess the Vulnerabilities

    4. Lesson 3.4 — Step Three: Control and Improve, and Detection Methods

    5. Module 3 Implementation Activity: Building Your Vulnerability Assessment

    1. Lesson 4.1 — Using AI Wisely

    2. Lesson 4.2 — Assess, Mitigate, Monitor, and Your Next Steps

    3. Module 4 Implementation Activity: AI and Next Steps

    1. Final Quiz

About this course

  • $97.00
  • 19 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

Food fraud is now your problem to prove

Your standard expects a food fraud assessment. Your customers are asking you to back up your claims. And somewhere in your supply chain sits an ingredient you are trusting on faith.

  • You have a food fraud assessment, but you are not confident it would stand up at audit.

  • You are not sure you could actually prove your suppliers' authenticity claims.

  • You do not know where to start, or how to score which materials are most at risk.

  • It feels like a tick-box exercise you were never properly shown how to do

  • You have seen the headlines, and you have wondered, could that happen tg

Imagine walking into your audit calm

Picture a food fraud system you actually understand. You know exactly which of your materials are most vulnerable and why. Each significant risk has a control you can point to. Your assessment is current, evidenced, and built the way an auditor thinks. When they ask how you did it, you can answer with confidence, because you built it yourself. That is not just about passing an audit. It is about genuinely trusting what comes through your door, and protecting the product and reputation you have worked hard for.
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By the end, you will be able to

  • Build a complete, defensible food fraud (VACCP) vulnerability assessment from scratch.

  • Identify and prioritise your real vulnerabilities, so you focus effort where it counts.

  • Put the right preventative and detectinifcontrols in place for each risk.

  • Use AI safely to work faster, while keeping your professional judgement in control.

  • star-oExplain and defend your methodology to any auditor or customer.

  • And you will finish with the designation Certified Food Fraud (VACCP) Practitioner (PCVP) to show for it.

Finish as a Certified Food Fraud (VACCP) Practitioner (PCVP)

Complete the training and pass the final quiz, and you earn the designation Certified Food Fraud (VACCP) Practitioner (PCVP), issued by Pinnacle Management Systems, with a certificate you can share on LinkedIn and add to your professional development record.

Yes I want PCVP after my name

Instructor(s)

Nicole Inwood

Nicole is passionate about management systems and has been consulting, training and auditing for over 20 years. She is a qualified certifying auditor registered with Exemplar Global (previously RABQSA), conducting certification audits for SAI Global and BSI in a large range of industry sectors such as food safety, environment, quality, and work health and safety. Nicole shares her knowledge and experience in simple, informative and dynamic way. Email: [email protected] Phone: 0414 358 359

You do not have to do it alone

Once you have finished, if you would like ongoing support, the Pinnacle Food Safety Community runs a weekly live Q&A where you can bring your assessment and ask a practising auditor anything, plus monthly masterclasses and a growing template library. As a course graduate you get 50% off your first month.

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FAQ

  • How long will it take?

    Just over 1-2 hours of video and written content in the course material, plus the time you spend applying it to your own products. You can work through it at your own pace and revisit it any time.

  • Do I need to be a food fraud expert already?

    No. If you have general food safety knowledge, this training takes you the rest of the way, step by step.

  • Do I get the templates to keep?

    Yes. The full toolkit is yours to download, use and adapt.

Build a food fraud system you can stand behind

Stop hoping your assessment would hold up, and build one you know will. Get the training, the toolkit and the credential, and walk into your next audit prepared.
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