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GS1 SINGAPORE NEWS<br />
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Currently, it is also participating in the development of Singapore<br />
Standard in Pharmaceutical Cold Chain.<br />
Training<br />
The Cold Chain Centre is collaborating with industry & institute<br />
for higher learning to provide a certificate training courses to<br />
build a pool of manpower for Cold Chain Management.<br />
The syllabus of the certificate training courses is based on<br />
Singapore TR and Singapore Standards that are developed for<br />
cold chain management of chilled and frozen products<br />
• Cold Chain Management of chilling equipment<br />
including regular maintenances and also regular<br />
defrosting of refrigerators<br />
All trainees after completing the training course and passing the<br />
exam are given a certificate in Cold Chain Management Training<br />
Course and also an identification card to identify the person as<br />
the cold chain officer of the particular factory.<br />
A list of the students who passed the exam is sent to AVA to<br />
facilitate their inspection.<br />
The Certificate in Cold Chain Management<br />
Training Course<br />
This Training Course is designed and managed by Singapore<br />
Cold Chain Centre. The text books used are CP 95 : 2002 Cold<br />
Chain Management of Milk & Dairy Products, SS 552 : 2009 Cold<br />
Chain Management of Chilled Pork and TR 24 : 2007 Cold Chain<br />
Management of Vegetable. As part of the course material, all<br />
trainees are given an original copy of the above-mentioned<br />
Singapore Standards on Cold Chain Management (CP95,<br />
SS552 and TR24). This is GS1 Singapore’s effort to promote the<br />
Singapore Standard.<br />
This course is partially funded by the Workforce Development<br />
Agency (WDA).<br />
To date, more than 200 trainees have been trained and acquired<br />
good knowledge of cold chain management including HACCP<br />
to meet the industry requirements.<br />
The course is conducted by lecturers from School of Chemical &<br />
Life Sciences of Singapore Polytechnic and officers of AVA.<br />
It is a 25 hours course with 22 hours of lectures/lab work and 3<br />
hours hands on field visits.<br />
The course content includes the following:-<br />
• Introduction to Cold Chain Management<br />
• HACCP: Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points<br />
• Cold Chain Management at dairy factory<br />
• Cold Chain Management at Abattoir, De-boning Plant<br />
• Cold Chain Management of vegetable at the farm,<br />
harvesting and packaging<br />
• Cold Chain Management at cold room<br />
• Cold Chain Management of goods in chilled trucks<br />
• Cold Chain Management at retail outlets<br />
• Cold Chain Management at refrigerated display<br />
cabinets<br />
Optional Module for Polytechnic Supply Chain<br />
Management Diploma Course<br />
The Singapore Cold Chain Centre has collaborated with<br />
Republic Polytechnic to conduct the optional module on<br />
Cold Chain Management for the final year students of the<br />
Supply Chain Management Diploma Course.<br />
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