Past Events

  1. Advanced CIP

    Oct 22, 2025 through Oct 23, 2025, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    This two-day short-course will bring together highly recognized CIP experts including plant engineers, scientists, chemists, regulators, and technicians to provide the latest information and applications in CIP cleaning and sanitation of food and dairy processing plants. The course includes multiple hands-on sessions to increase technical knowledge through applied training. Course Topics:

  2. Cleaning and Sanitation Basics

    Oct 21, 2025, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    This one-day short-course is an introduction to cleaning and sanitation in food and dairy processing operations. This course combines live lectures and demonstrations from our pilot plant facilities. Participants will have the opportunity to interact and ask questions throughout the course. Course Topics:

  3. Better Process Control School

    Aug 19, 2025 through Aug 22, 2025, 8:00pm - 5:00pm

    The Better Process Control School (BPCS), offered by The Ohio State University's Wilbur A. Gould Food Industries Center, is required by FDA and USDA-FSIS for processors of low-acid and acidified foods. These processors must operate with a certified individual on-site at all times during processing. Upon successful completion of this four-day certificate course, supervisors of thermal processing systems, acidified food operations, and container closure evaluation programs will be qualified to meet U.S. regulatory requirements.

  4. A Young Packaging for Future Generations

    Aug 13, 2025 through Aug 14, 2025, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    This two-day seminar will provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamental processes and materials essential to the aluminum canmaking and beverage packaging industries. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the production of two-piece aluminum cans for beverages, including the regulatory landscape surrounding materials in contact with ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages.

  5. Better Process Control School (BPCS) FDA Certified-En Español.

    Jul 1, 2025 through Jul 2, 2025, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    El Curso de Mejor Control de Procesos Térmicos y Cierres de Alimentos Envasados (FDA Better Process Control School-BPCS) que ofrece el Centro de Industrias Alimentarias (FIC)-The Ohio State University, es un curso de cuatro días que la FDA, USDA y FSIS requieren a plantas procesadoras de alimentos de baja acidez o acidificados. El curso cumple los requisitos  de capacitación especificados por las agencias gubernamentales de EE.

  6. FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food Participant Course Version 2.0

    Jun 10, 2025 through Jun 12, 2025, 8:00am - 3:00pm

    The workshop's new curriculum, Version 2.0, addresses important updates in FDA guidance documents and important knowledge that Preventive Controls Qualified Individuals (PCQIs) will need to keep their Food Safety Plans up-to-date. With a heightened emphasis on the connection between HACCP and Preventive Controls, this workshop also gained recognition as an approved HACCP-based curriculum by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).

  7. Food Extrusion Workshop

    May 13, 2025 through May 16, 2025, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    Contact Heather Bell at bell.1534@osu.edu to be added to the 2026 waitlist.

  8. Better Process Control School

    Mar 4, 2025 through Mar 7, 2025, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    The Better Process Control School (BPCS), offered by The Ohio State University's Wilbur A. Gould Food Industries Center, is required by FDA and USDA-FSIS for processors of low-acid and acidified foods. These processors must operate with a certified individual on-site at all times during processing. Upon successful completion of this four-day certificate course, supervisors of thermal processing systems, acidified food operations, and container closure evaluation programs will be qualified to meet U.S. regulatory requirements.

  9. Advanced CIP

    Oct 23, 2024 through Oct 24, 2024, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    This two-day short-course will bring together highly recognized CIP experts including plant engineers, scientists, chemists, regulators, and technicians to provide the latest information and applications in CIP cleaning and sanitation of food and dairy processing plants. The course includes multiple hands-on sessions to increase technical knowledge through applied training. Course Topics:

  10. Cleaning and Sanitation Basics

    Oct 22, 2024, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    This one-day short-course is an introduction to cleaning and sanitation in food and dairy processing operations. This course combines live lectures and demonstrations from our pilot plant facilities. Participants will have the opportunity to interact and ask questions throughout the course. Course Topics:

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