Commercial Food Sanitation Launches Training to Help Food Manufacturers Strengthen Foreign Material Controls
Commercial Food Sanitation (CFS), an Intralox company, announced a new Foreign Material Control Training to help food manufacturers strengthen foreign material prevention and minimize food safety risks. This training takes a practical, risk-based approach to helping participants strengthen prevention and better manage foreign material risks from assessment through incident response.
Foreign material contamination (FMC) was the leading cause of USDA-FSIS recalls in 2025. Contaminants like metal, plastic, glass, wood, and stone can pose serious injury risks to consumers.
Foreign Material Control Training teaches food safety teams practical ways to prevent, detect, and investigate foreign material hazards.
The Foreign Material Control Training prepares participants to improve their facilities’ foreign material prevention programs and leverage detection technologies such as X-ray inspection systems. Participants also become familiar with root cause investigations, which can help identify and eliminate sources of FMC.
“Preventing foreign material incidents requires more than having detection equipment at the end of the line,” said Jason Klein, CFS Director of Operations. “Food manufacturers need a comprehensive strategy that considers how foreign material enters the process, how risks can be controlled, and how teams respond when an incident occurs. Our training will give food industry professionals the tools to do so.”
Preventing foreign material incidents requires more than having detection equipment at the end of the line. Food manufacturers need a comprehensive strategy. Our training will give food industry professionals the tools to do so. It is a precise, layered approach."
The Foreign Material Control Training is part of CFS’s broader training and certification portfolio, which focuses on relevant food safety topics like sanitation, hygienic design, and pathogen control. With training sessions offered at sites around the world, CFS has trained over 6,700 participants globally to date.
