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Meeting Industry Needs | Dept. of Chemistry hosts Better Process Control School (BPCS)

The Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, The UWI (Mona Campus) hosted the Better Process Control School (BPCS) between January 10 and 14, 2022. The BPCS is a certification course that is a regulatory requirement of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica, the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for processors of low-acid canned food and acidified food. Only US FDA-approved institutions are permitted to deliver the programme. The University of the West Indies (Department of Chemistry) has been a US FDA-approved institution since 1997.

Instructors for the programme were experienced consultants to the industry and/or active practitioners in the food processing sector. Thirty seven participants from 14 companies located in Jamaica and Trinidad attended the course. This year, delivery of the course was in dual mode: face-to-face and online. Online participants completed the examination process through the University of the West Indies Virtual Learning Environment (OurVLE). All candidates successfully completed the course and were awarded The UWI’s BPCS Certificate of Satisfactory Completion in Full or Certificate for Retort Processing & Acidified Foods or Certificate for Retort & Aseptic Processing.

See BPCS testimonials.

To learn about the next staging of the BPCS contact hodchemistry@uwimona.edu.jm.

 

 

 

Published on 02 Feb, 2022

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