{"id":2373,"date":"2013-04-12T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T09:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vwa.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2025-05-12T09:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:45:36","slug":"meet-the-trainer-peter-clarke-haccptraining-foodsafetytraining-foodauditing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/meet-the-trainer-peter-clarke-haccptraining-foodsafetytraining-foodauditing\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Trainer: Peter Clarke HACCP &#038; Food Safety expert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peter Clarke is a trainer, consultant and auditor, specialising in HACCP, food safety and quality management systems. He has been working in this field since 1998, and has worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VWA<\/a> since 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter trains up to level 4 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/food-safety\/food-safety-training-courses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">food safety<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/haccp\/haccp-training-courses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HACCP<\/a>, as well as running numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/auditing\/auditing-training-courses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auditor training<\/a> courses, including all those offered at VWA. He is a registered QMS2000 auditor, and works within the food industry assisting with food safety, quality and environmental management systems. He also has a long history of providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/food-safety-consultants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HACCP consultancy<\/a> to blue chip companies as well as small retailers and caterers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to working in this field, Peter worked for 20 years in the food industry for British Sugar plc, and gained practical experience of management systems and leading a food safety team. Peter is also a referee for speedway racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some facts about Peter that are not listed on his CV!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Best subject at school? <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Chemistry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Favourite time of the day? <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Any time is a good time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Food heaven? <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>My partner\u2019s homemade veggie curry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Food hell? <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Oysters \u2013 yuk!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Favourite item of clothing? <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>I like being smart, really!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ideal way to spend a day off? <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching a good speedway match<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Secret aspiration? <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>If I told you I\u2019d have to kill you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What makes you really angry?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>People moaning about things they don\u2019t know about<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What makes you really happy?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>A good evening out in good company<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Best advice ever given to you? <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Eat healthily and keep fit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What would be your preferred epitaph?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>The oldest man who ever lived<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Clarke is a trainer, consultant and auditor, specialising in HACCP, food safety and quality management systems. He has been working in this field since 1998, and has worked with VWA since 2002. Peter trains up to level 4 in food safety and HACCP, as well as running numerous auditor training courses, including all those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,6,76],"tags":[36,40,39,129,86,31,53,84,87,130,30,38],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-safety-hygiene-news","category-food-safety-training","category-haccp-training","category-trainer-profiles","tag-auditing-training","tag-food-hygiene-training","tag-food-safety-training","tag-haccp-consultancy","tag-haccp-trainer","tag-haccp-training","tag-haccp-yorkshire","tag-level-4-haccp-training","tag-peter-clarke","tag-peter-clarke-cv","tag-verner-wheelock","tag-vwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwa.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}