Course Catalog

Advanced Herbal Extractions: Percolations and Beyond

If you want to improve and enhance your apothecary by using sophisticated herbal extraction methods, you need this course. Learn how to produce high-quality tinctures in just a few hours through...
Level: AdvancedContact Hours: 6.00Class is Portable: Yes

Artisanal Probiotic Cultures

Would you like to learn how to grow cultures that will aid digestion, preserve foods, and add flavor and nutrition? This course is designed to promote creativity while tasting and learning how to...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 4.00Class is Portable: No

Aseptic Processing I

Are you new to the pharmaceutical or life science sectors? Need to brush up your skills? Learn and practice the basics of aseptic operations in a simulated CGMP environment. CGMP exists to...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 24.00Class is Portable: No

Aseptic Processing II

Build on the foundation you constructed in Aseptic Processing Level I with this course, a hands-on experience in which you hone aseptic operational skills in a simulated CGMP cleanroom environment...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 24.00Class is Portable: No

Basic Microscope Skills

Are you a lab technician? Quality control or assurance personnel? Or employed in the food, beverage, or natural products fields? Practical microscopy skills can help you. In this class, you can...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 4.00Class is Portable: No

Biomanufacturing Bootcamp

This course allows participants to experience biopharmaceutical manufacturing through lectures and hands-on production of green fluorescent protein (GFP) within a current good manufacturing practices...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 32.00Class is Portable: No

BioWork: Process Technician

The BioWork certificate program will teach you the foundational skills you need to begin a career as a process technician for a biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or chemical manufacturing company....
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 136.00Class is Portable: Yes

Chromatography in Theory & Practice

Chromatography is a critical operational step in many pharmaceutical downstream processes. In this course, you will learn chromatography fundamentals, design, operations, key mechanisms, and...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 32.00Class is Portable: No

Cleanroom Gowning Certification

Do you need to hold cleanroom gowning certification? If so, this course lets you earn a certificate comparable to other gowning certificates in the industry. In the course's classroom component,...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: No

Computer Application Validation

Interactively learn and apply requirements in validating Computer System Applications. By concentrating on information systems and instruction on how to meet requirements of CFR 21, Part 11...
Level: AdvancedContact Hours: 16.00Class is Portable: Yes

Craft Beer Laboratory Skills 1: Basic Laboratory Skills

This course will establish a foundation in laboratory skills and safety. We'll discuss basic math generally needed for work in the lab, including significant figures, rounding, and conversions. We...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: No

Craft Beer Laboratory Skills 2: Microbiology

Students in this introductory class will learn the importance of the microbiology lab to the brewery. In this class, we will explore the basic microbiological techniques used to evaluate and maintain...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: No

Craft Beer Laboratory Skills 3: Analytical Chemistry/Instrumentation

Course three will include basic chemistry techniques and some more advanced instrumentation. Participants will be exposed to a range of equipment and testing methods to prepare them for working in...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: No

Elements of Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) for Biomanufacturing

Elements of Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) in Biomanufacturing Processes

Understand the fundamentals of current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) for Biomanufacturing. CGMP exists to protect the health and safety of patients or consumers. This course covers current...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 16.00Class is Portable: Yes

Elements of Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) for the Food, Beverage, and Natural Products Industries

Introduction to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for Food, Beverage, and Natural Products

This course will provide an overview of current Food and Drug Administration (FDA) CGMP regulations and guidance for food, beverage, dietary supplements, and cosmetics businesses. These FDA...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 4.00Class is Portable: Yes

Elements of Current Good Manufacturing Practices for Pharmaceuticals

Expand your knowledge. Learn to apply current good manufacturing practices (CGMP) in biopharmaceutical production. CGMPs exist to protect the health and safety of patients or consumers. In this...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 16.00Class is Portable: Yes

Elements of HACCP

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) diagram

This course equips food production employees and floor supervisors with all they need to know to stay in compliance with an HACCP system. As a food safety professional, it’s your job to enhance...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: Yes

Elements of Preventive Controls

The Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation (aka Preventive Controls for Human Food) are intended to ensure safe, packing,...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: Yes

Elements of Supplier and Internal Quality Audits

Regulatory authorities are increasingly expecting on-going, competent assessments of internally and externally sourced processes and materials. This course provides foundational information on...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: Yes

Environmental Monitoring Program for Aseptic Processing

An Environmental Monitoring (EM) program provides meaningful information on the quality of the aseptic processing environment as well as environmental trends of ancillary clean...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 16.00Class is Portable: Yes

Fermentation Processes

Biopharmaceutical fermentation involves propagating mammalian, yeast, or microbial cells for producing a desired drug product; it is used to produce products such as antibiotics, hormones, amino...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 24.00Class is Portable: No

Freeze-Drying Fundamentals

Learn the principles and techniques of manufacturing lyophilized biopharmaceutical products. Biologics, vaccines, and other pharmaceutical ingredients may require freeze-drying and moisture analysis...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 20.00Class is Portable: No

FSPCA Preventive Controls For Human Foods: Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI)

Are you looking to become a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI)? Completing our course is one way to achieve that goal. Developed by the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 24.00Class is Portable: Yes

Fundamentals of Biomolecules

Biomolecules are often the end product and a critical component of the bioprocessing and biopharmaceutical industries. This course provides a basic introduction to inorganic and organic chemistry...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 20.00Class is Portable: Yes

Fundamentals of Food Safety

Keeping food safe for human or animal consumption means knowing how to execute quality safety practices such as personal hygiene, good manufacturing habits, and proper sanitation. In this course,...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: Yes

Fundamentals of Validation

This course is designed to introduce technicians and professionals to the principles and regulatory requirements of current drug, biologic and medical product validation. A brief historical overview...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: No

Good Documentation Practices and Data Integrity

Are you responsible for preserving documents or for ensuring that your company’s data is complete and correct? Stay on top of your field by learning the regulatory requirements and best practices...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: Yes

Good Lab Practices: FDA and EPA Regulations

Understand the documentation guidelines required to generate acceptable EPA and FDA product registration safety studies. In this course, you will undertake a series of exercises, including labeling...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: No

HACCP and Sanitation for Craft Beverages

Experience the process of creating an alcoholic beverage-based Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) plan. This course will help breweries align their processes with the expectations of...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: Yes

Herbal QC: Analytical Methods

Having a sound quality control (QC) system in place and meeting the documentation standards for regulatory compliance can mean gaining familiarity with analytical testing. If you've seen the acronyms...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 2.00Class is Portable: Yes

HPLC in Theory & Practice

High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is a chemistry technique used to separate compounds of interest from a liquid mixture based on chemical and/or physical properties. When HPLC is coupled...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 16.00Class is Portable: No

Instrumentation Calibration Program for the Life Science Industry

This course reviews the regulatory requirements and methods for determining calibration specifications and relates these methods to validation of critical utilities, manufacturing processes and...
Level: AdvancedContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: Yes

Introduction to Computer Validation

This course gives an overview of computer validation and its fundamental principles, for both automation and information systems. The course addresses the CGMP requirements related to computer...
Level: AdvancedContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: Yes

Introductory HACCP

Developing or following a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan can be daunting. In this course, learn how HACCP systems work and your role in regulatory compliance. A series of...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 16.00Class is Portable: Yes

Maintenance Controls for Aseptic Operations

Learn the various roles that maintenance personnel perform in aseptic processing facilities. Through lecture and hands-on activities, we'll review proper aseptic techniques, sterility assurance, and...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: No

Medical Device Current Good Manufacturing Practices

Learn the principles, requirements, and expectations of Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) for medical device production. Topics covered include the regulatory definition of what constitutes...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 16.00Class is Portable: Yes

Methods of Home Mushroom Cultivation

Learn about the mushroom life cycle and varieties of mushrooms that are easiest to grow at home. We’ll discuss methods and techniques for cultivating mushrooms on a small scale, with an emphasis on...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 4.00Class is Portable: No

Micropipetting Techniques for Precision & Accuracy

Micropipettes are common laboratory devices used to accurately dispense small volumes of liquid samples. This course focuses on the principles of micropipetting techniques used in biotechnology and...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: Yes

Oral Solid Dose (OSD) Manufacturing

BioNetwork’s Oral Solid Dose manufacturing course is the perfect training solution for all employees within pharmaceutical manufacturing industry at all levels to gain a fast and comprehensive...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 20.00Class is Portable: No

Phytochemistry: Actions and Applications

An understanding of the chemical structures in plants is advantageous to produce the most effective herbal preparations. This introduction to botanical constituents will be taught in simple and...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 9.00Class is Portable: No

Project Execution Planning (PEP) for Qualification

A Project Execution Plan (PEP) is much more than a chart showing timescales - it is a document describing how, when, and by whom a specific target or set of targets is to be achieved. These targets...
Level: AdvancedContact Hours: 16.00Class is Portable: Yes

Report Writing: Considerations and Best Practices

Take command of your report and learn how to write clear, accurate, and easy-to-read professional records that boost your team’s work. In our course, participants acquire techniques and tools to...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: Yes

Sample Preparation for HPLC Analysis

Students will execute basic analytical processes and use HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) instrumentation to perform analysis of trace organic compounds. You will learn to analyze...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 16.00Class is Portable: No

Segment Two - Seafood HACCP (AFDO Accredited)

Advance your food safety career with a certificate from the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO). This certificate provides evidence that you have met the FDA Seafood HACCP training...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 8.00Class is Portable: Yes

Sensory Evaluation of Fermented Food and Beverages of the World

Learn the skills to become a taste tester and enjoy exotic fermented food and beverages from around the world. We will take a tour of the globe by tasting indigenous fermented food and drinks like...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 3.00Class is Portable: No

Starting Your Herbal Products Business

Do you have an amazing herbal product you’d like to share with the world? Then this is the webinar for you! Learn the nuts and bolts of setting up a business keeping in mind specific considerations...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 2.00Class is Portable: No

Sterilization and Controlled Temperature Environment Validation

This course provides participants with an in-depth understanding of steam sterilization as well as the current methods of validation for sterile processes in the pharma/biotech manufacturing...
Level: IntermediateContact Hours: 24.00Class is Portable: No

Testing Moisture Content, pH, and Water Activity in Food

Develop your analytical skills by performing pH, acidity, water activity, and moisture content testing of selected foods, beverages, and dietary supplements. Learn about the importance of lab...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 3.00Class is Portable: No

Validation of Automated Equipment & Process Control Systems

Learn the process for validation of automated equipment and process control systems typically found in the biomanufacturing or pharmaceutical facilities using GAMP 5 and other guidelines. Highly...
Level: AdvancedContact Hours: 16.00Class is Portable: Yes

Where Cooking Meets Science

Experience our local Test Kitchen, available to the community via a joint partnership between A-B Tech and BioNetwork. Participants will delve into the science, equipment and techniques that provide...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 9.00Class is Portable: No

Writing Effective Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

SOP illustration - Standard Operating Procedure

Are your employees on the same page when it comes to carrying out work tasks? Are your company’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) complete and easy to follow? Join this class to learn to write...
Level: BeginnerContact Hours: 4.00Class is Portable: Yes

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