Conducting a canning operation
The CTCPA, Centre Technique de la Conservation des Produits Agricoles, offers you the "Running a canning business" cycle. Would you like to work in a cannery, open your own artisanal cannery or simply learn how to make preserves? This training course, given in Auch, Avignon, Beauvais, Dijon, Ludon-Médoc and Nantes, can be financed via your CPF. The CTCPA is the Centre Technique de la Conserve. Contact us with any questions you may have about canning. Our teams are at your service.
CTCPA PEDAGOGY
- Identify the technical constraints, the necessary organization of the production (treatment of the product and process) as well as the management methods essential to the respect of food safety.
- Be able to make and sterilize canned goods
- Be able to operate a vertical static autoclave (for your self-certification)
- To help you plan a renovation project within your budget.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Lectures, slide shows, exercises, and hands-on activities, films
- Exchange of experiences and discussions
- Lunch meetings with the speakers
- Provision of documentation and training materials
- Issuance of a training certificate.
TEACHING METHODS
- Regulations on canned foods
- The implementation of good hygiene practices, the sanitation control plan, and HACCP
- The principles of sterilization (what is a schedule?)
- The Basics of Microbiology
- Operating an Autoclave Safely: Theory and Practice
- Choose your packaging materials—metal, glass, or plastic—and learn what checks to perform to ensure they are properly sealed
- Selecting production equipment (autoclave, packaging machine, etc.)
- Inspections of finished products and determination of the best-before date
Content of the training
The CTCPA offers training in the operation of a canning business.
With the CTCPA, learn how to transform your products into preserves and set up your own canning factory.
Our canner training course can be financed via your personal training account. Consult the program to find out more about this course.
This training course is available on the Mon Compte Formation platform. The conditions for using CPF credits and any amount that may remain the participant’s responsibility depend on the participant’s individual circumstances. To help you understand and use your CPF safely, please refer to the official articles on “My Training Account”: How to register for training | My training account as well as articles from the French Ministry of Labor: Personal training account or CPF: we explain everything! (travail-emploi.gouv.fr) FranceConnect+ to secure your training purchase (travail-emploi.gouv.fr)
Certification body: CTCPA. Certification entitled "Conduire une activité de conserverie artisanale" registered under number RS6786. Registration date: 01/10/2024. Expiry date: 01/10/2029.
CERTIFICATION EXAM
Evaluation of knowledge by MCQs and case studies. Issuance of a training certificate and a certificate of achievement. Autoclave authorization is the responsibility of the manager. A certification is proposed on request. It is included in the training in case of financing via the CPF. It consists of answering a knowledge questionnaire + a simulation exercise in a technological hall. The results are submitted to the jury.