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Training helps reduce or eliminate food safety hazards before they become major issues.
Reducing food safety complaints will create a happier workplace and in turn increase productivity.
Numerous professionals nationwide have already earned and renewed their card with AAA Food Handler — a trusted name in food safety training.
The Massachusetts Food Handlers Card shows that you’ve completed food safety training and understand the basic workplace practices for handling food safely.
You’ll need to take an ANAB approved online Food Handler course, complete the training, and pass a 40-question final exam with a 70% or higher score. Once you pass, your card will be available to download and print immediately.
The course takes about 1.5 hours and is entirely self-paced. You can start, pause, and complete it whenever it works best for your schedule.
You’ll learn about safe food handling practices, proper hygiene, time and temperature controls, cross-contamination prevention, cleaning and sanitizing procedures, and how to help prevent foodborne illness.
No problem, you’ll have two attempts to pass the final exam.
Your Food Handler Card is typically accepted for 3 years, but you should check with your employer or local health department to confirm the specific renewal timeframe in your area.
The course is 100% online and available 24/7. You can complete it on your phone, tablet, or computer whenever and wherever convenient.
The Food Handler training is in English and Spanish to support various food workers across Massachusetts.
The Food Handler Course is available in English and Spanish, making it accessible for various food service professionals.
Anyone who handles open food, food-contact surfaces, utensils, or equipment in a food service setting, including restaurants, cafeterias, food trucks, and grocery stores, should complete this training.
The Massachusetts Food Handler training is available for just $6.95, including two attempts at the final exam.
Taking the Food Handler Course helps you develop the skills needed to maintain food safety on the job. It also shows potential employers that you’re prepared and serious about preventing health risks in the workplace.
In Massachusetts, individuals may sell non-potentially hazardous, shelf-stable foods prepared in a residential kitchen. Permitted items include baked goods without perishable toppings or fillings, fruit preserves, candies, granola, spice blends, and other safe products to store at room temperature.
After completing the Food Handler Course, you’ll be better prepared for entry-level positions such as cook, prep cook, food server, barista, dishwasher, deli staff, or grocery associate in restaurants, cafés, bakeries, food trucks, and more.
For official food safety guidance in Massachusetts, contact:
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Food Protection Program, 305 South Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130
To sell homemade food in Massachusetts, you must get a permit from your local board of health and complete a Food Manager certificate like the AAA Food Handler Food Protection Manager Certification. You’ll also need to pass a kitchen inspection and follow local rules about labeling, sanitation, and allowed food types.
Food Handler Reviews
4.9
This is a very easy course to take. But the test includes even some small minor details. Pay attention to anything that has a number associated, and remember those types of contamination. You will get asked. I don’t think the test misses anything. So watch the course carefully to remember the details.
If text to speech (not AI; old school TTS) doesn’t bother you and you just want a simple class to get your food handlers certificate, then this is the class for you!
The course is very good, interesting and above all, they teach us different things to implement in our daily life at home
This is a great module to come back to when updating your food handlers it makes it a lot easier because you can make your account so you can come back to it almost any time to finish the course especially if you are busy
it was fun!
This course is better than the book
This was well put together just as good as the book
great test
Excelente curso, los conocimientos adquiridos son muy valiosos los adoptare, para mantener seguros los alimentos y las areas de manipulación, evitando y reduciendo los riesgos de contaminación.
Very easy and straightforward to understand.
Very informative.I learned a lot.
would reccomend
good stuff to know
good
Well done good training
It was a long process but it was actually very knowledgeable and I learned a couple of things.
This training was easy to follow and very informative. 🙂
The test was great
Food Manager Reviews
4.9
Good
This class was easy to get thru and was great!
Very easy to follow along
Very informative
very good for course
The training is thorough and easy to apply. Flows well, the review quizzes cover the material and sometimes offer questions that make you think. It’s money well spent.
All the lesson were very informative!
Es practico y la voz de la instructora es agradable. Se capta casi toda la información y no cansa
This was a perfect review after 5 years. Easy to follow and appreciated the practice questions.
Even though i have been in the industry for over 20 years its always a good refresher to study this again. Thanks
This food saftey course brushes over the most important parts with the different food processes of receiving, processing, maintaining, and serving. As a lot of the information has been common sense, it is a good reminder to relearn as it’s important to make sure the food is safe for the customers to eat. I did also learn a lot of valuable information about the different food temperatures I didn’t know before taking the course. Overall, I would recommend this to every food manager even if not all the sections apply to them.
I learned a lot
Muy buena experiencia
Was very easy to understand and well paced. Not overly stacked with useless dialogue but just enough to get you to understand what and why.
Alcohol Training Reviews
4.8
good
Great
I feel very prepared to take the test.
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Food Manager Reviews
4.9
It was easy and straightforward.
This course was eye opening and very much user friendly
Was very well organized thank you
this course covered everything i needed to know about serving alcohol and all the information well presented in a clear, concise way. P.S. module 4.11 turned into the spanish version, every other module was still in english
It was good
the course was simple and easy to complete.
Awesome
The material is clean and objective
It was an easy course to navigate and straight to the point with the info I needed to know
The test was long but worth it when I passed in the end.
great easy to learn graphics
Excellent course!
good
Es largo pero hay que prestar atención pero se me hizo fácil y educativo
Excellent course with emphasis on important items
Alcohol Training Reviews
4.8
good
Great
I feel very prepared to take the test.
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