Allergen Awareness is the first course in the Allergen Friendly Series. This interactive online course provides allergen awareness for your entire staff. In this course, you will learn current information on what causes an allergic reaction, the nine major food allergens, how to communicate with customers who have food allergies, and how to assure customers’ allergen needs are communicated within the operation from the initial order to the serving process. The Allergen Awareness further covers cross-contact, how to avoid it, and what to do when an allergic reaction or attack occurs. Allergen Awareness was designed to be highly flexible, allowing the student to train on their schedule. Upon successful of the completion of the course and 20 question exam the student will earn a certificate that is valid for three years. Certificates are watermarked, and at the end of the course are available immediately to print. And with Certificate Verification at www.tapseries.io, regulators or employers can quickly validate your certificate to confirm the student holds a current certificate.

Allergen Plan Development is the second course in the Allergen Friendly Series. With the Allergen Plan Development Course, the answers to the questions about “ask your manager” are developed. This course walks management through all the elements of food allergens in a food operation, allowing management to decide what will and will not be done. Throughout the course, the user is offered a series of questions and options for how much accommodation the operation will give to the issue of food allergen safety. Even those operations not able to achieve a high level of accommodations will have made the decision with a full awareness of what is not being provided. Operations that decide to offer a high level of food allergen accommodations will end the course with the foundation of their Allergen Plan. This plan will be saved and used to develop the details of the operation's food allergen safety process.

Upon successful completion of the course, you will earn a certificate that is valid for three years. Certificates are watermarked, and at the end of the course are available immediately to print. And with Certificate Verification on our website, regulators or employers can quickly validate your certificate to confirm the student holds a current certificate.

Allergen Plan Special list is the final course to complete to earn your Allergen Friendly Certificate. After completing the prerequisite courses Allergen Awareness and Allergen Plan Development, your operation may decide to have someone who knows how to evaluate and document allergens in the operation’s products. In this course, the student is provided with an in-depth understanding of food allergens, product ingredients, and common allergen food items. With this knowledge, the student learns how to evaluate a menu and its recipes for their food products. Knowing all the products used by the operation, the student learns how to identify the food allergen ingredients in the products. The student learns when to be alert to potential ingredient changes, how to communicate with suppliers, and what to do about product recalls due to allergen mislabeling or undeclared allergens. The student learns how to use this knowledge to create a database to track each allergen, from product to menu. In Lesson 2, the student learns all the steps of an operation and how to develop written protocols for each step. Through discussions of receiving, storage, ordering, cooking and serving, the student learns how to work with other staff to evaluate each step of the operation from an allergen view point. Using this knowledge, the student is taught to develop short written directions as guides for staff. Forms of written communication are addressed and what should and should not be said to customers. Upon successful completion of the course, the student will earn a certificate that is valid for three years. And with Certificate Verification on our website, regulators or employers can quickly validate your certificate to confirm the student holds a current certificate.