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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 course was interactive and easy to understand. It was very informative and makes me feel safe and excited for my new adventure. The health of my future customers is important to me and this course has set me on the right path.
The videos were easy and locking the modules makes sure you watch the videos. I just wish there was an option to speed or slow down the videos because I felt they were a tad slow. Overall, would use this again for renewing my food handlers card.
Training was easy to follow, I liked the pictures, how it was laid out and the summaries at the end of the modules.
It was an informative course and helped me learn a lot.
Its interactive, simple and shown at a good pace so you can keep up and review before moving on
I found this course to be really insightful.
I liked the test it was easy to stay on track and learn.
fue muy interesante toda la información explicada en el modulo lo que mas me gusto fue que aprendí como usar el termómetro y las temperaturas que debo checar al cocinar cualquier tipo de comida.
Explains information very well and clear.
INCREDIBLE USE OF AI IN THE FREE MARKET
Videos to long and having to go to next slide was horrible.
This course felt painless. Normally, going through any course feels tedious, but this course’s slide shows and interactive features kept my attention and made me want to continue learning.
This program was easy to use and straight forward.
Was easy enough o pay attention to the videos
Learned a lot. Great course👍
Food Manager Reviews
4.9
Its a good training for open a business like restaurant
well explained information.Everything is explained and shown clearly.I will use everything I learned in my work.Thank you.
I learned a lot. But the speaker spoke to fast and it was difficult to stop her where I needed more time to take notes. If I wanted to rewind I had to listen to the whole module again.
Super clear and give you so many options to learn
The training made it so that I could go through the modules as my time allowed. I truly appreciated that!
Very Good
GOOD
Me gustó que puedes ir estudiando a tu ritmo. Es práctico y al grano.
Was very insightful went over some things a person tends to forget or didnt know , I liked the details they went into to explain each session.
It’s very detail. I couldn’t have learn so much about the restaurant business if it wasn’t for this course.
5 star
East to follow course. Very informative and hopefully it sets me up to be fully ready to pass this test and get my certificate
I genuinely enjoyed the course. Very informative and presented in a way that was practical and easy to understand. Loved learning new information that the general food worker class doesn’t expand on.
easy to follow and learn from
Very Informative! What I grow up knowing and what you guys have provided was amazing! Everyone should have to experience this course!
I just opened a Mobile Food Truck, and being new to the industry, having access to the AAA Food Manager training was great! The course very informative, and manageable. I certain fell more confident while on food industry serving my community and beyond.
The course was fun and easy to follow. I enjoyed taking this course
very easy to understand each video and practice tests.
I thought it was informative. It felt like it went by quickly.
Alcohol Training Reviews
4.8
easy and quick
Was very informational. Very thoughtful and nice techniques of giving out information. Should make it 90% to pass each review, and there were some moments in which the videos did pause.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Great, efficient and fast.
It was well written Learned a lot
although it felt a big long. It is very important to know all the policies to take beverage healthily for you and the comunity
thank you
fue muy didáctico y fácil de entender.
great
Food Allergen Reviews
5.0
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Harassment Training Review
4.9
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Food Manager Reviews
4.9
Great
It’s straight laced and leaves one feeling informed about food safety. The course and test is very straight laced and food industry promising, Thanks
great course to go through!
Gives great information about how to keep and maintain a clean working environment.
muy interesante toda la informacion proporcionada
It’s very important to know these things
everything was explained in a very simple way to understand
Very good course covering this important topic
Class was extremely basic hitting all mandatory topics. Video segments “modules” are 30 secs – 2 mins each requiring you to click 3 separate areas before moving to the next slide in the same topic. Time consuming and pointless. Could not rewind to hit a point again, rather rewatch whole module. Videos on Food Storage/Safety suddenly went silent and when they began to replay, they were overlayed with previous slide sound and current slide sound.
great course with tons of informative information that is super important to know for food handlers!
great instructions
It was fast and easy
Definitely informative and can help someone work more safely at work and at home.
Bueno
Alcohol Training Reviews
4.8
easy and quick
Was very informational. Very thoughtful and nice techniques of giving out information. Should make it 90% to pass each review, and there were some moments in which the videos did pause.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Great, efficient and fast.
It was well written Learned a lot
although it felt a big long. It is very important to know all the policies to take beverage healthily for you and the comunity
thank you
fue muy didáctico y fácil de entender.
great
Food Allergen Reviews
5.0
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Harassment Training Review
4.9
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