SPS Plant Health Distance Learning Modules

Does unsafe food threaten public health in your country? Is the food you eat at risk of contamination? Or, perhaps, has your shipment of agricultural goods been held at the port of entry because of a potential cargo pest infestation?
The sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) plant health distance learning training courses are a “go to” resource to start answering your questions and address some of your challenges. Interactive and web-based, these courses support the effort to integrate SPS good principles on food safety, animal health, and plant health in trade along agricultural value chains.
The Food Safety Network (FSN) has released 14 SPS online training courses on plant pest surveillance, plant pest identification systems, plant pest inspections, animal health, and food safety. The courses are available in English, French, and Spanish. These courses feature the input of APHIS technical experts.
These trainings provide knowledge on the importance of plant health in driving international trade and protecting countries and consumers from pests and diseases. Overseas, these trainings can help foreign agricultural officers and their counterparts in the government to understand and apply sound science principles of risk analysis to address plant health, animal health and food safety issues.
The Food Safety Network (FSN) is a U.S. government interagency collaboration between USAID and the USDA to promote the link among food safety, food security, and trade along agricultural value chains. Food safety improves public health; it also improves food security and ultimately improves trade and the economy. For more information go here.
Please see below for the list of SPS distance-learning modules currently available. More modules will be posted as they are rolled out throughout 2018.
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Pest Surveillance Training Module

Plant Pest ID Systems Training Module

Inspections Training Module

SPS Agreement Training Module

Pest Risk Analysis Training Module

Pest Risk Assessment Training Module

Pest Risk Management Training Module

Phytosanitary Certification Training Module

Pest Risk Training Module

Pest Free Area Concept Training Module

U.S. Market Access Process Training Module
