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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

TP54 · Level 5

Food Quality and Hygiene Technician

Target occupation: quality technician, HACCP officer.

Target occupation
quality technician, HACCP officer
Level
5 — Senior technician and supervisor
Duration
10 months
Taught hours
700 h
Credits
70

Framework

Competency blocks

Each block is assessed separately and stays acquired. That is what lets you resume an interrupted path without starting over.

  1. Food safety

    200 hours

    Biological, chemical and physical hazards, HACCP, the food safety plan

  2. Quality control and laboratory

    180 hours

    Sampling, routine analyses, interpretation, non-conformity

  3. Traceability and crisis management

    160 hours

    Upstream and downstream traceability, withdrawal and recall, alert handling

  4. Internal audit and standards

    120 hours

    Hygiene audits, sector standards, action plans

  5. Professional conduct

    40 hours

    Stopping a non-compliant production run, training teams

Questions

How is this title awarded?

Through a workplace simulation before a panel of practitioners, together with a professional portfolio recording what you actually produced. An occupation is proven by practising it, not on paper.

What employment rate do you publish?

None, and that is deliberate: no cohort has yet completed this title. The six-month employment rate is this family's own indicator, and we will publish it once a cohort has produced one — not before. An invented figure here would be the first thing an employer checks.

Food Quality and Hygiene Technician — IHETC