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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
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This course was very informative and easy to navigate.
Super easy and fast
The review was very easy and easy to follow.
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Straight to the point and easy to follow
The class was helpful and gave great insight into the different stages underneath the culinary umbrella.
the modules were very easy to understand and remember, thank you.
Taking the test was a good experience. It taught me a lot more about food handling and having a clean environment.
Food Manager Reviews
4.9
This coarse was to the point & easy to use. I like that it can be paused, rewatched or completed all at once.
Good and informative course.
I really enjoyed it, it was so knowledgeable & Interesting!
This course was highly helpful and touched based on many topics about the food industry. I appreciated how informative the course was. I will definitely recommend this course to other. Plus it was at a reasonable cost too.
Bueno y conveniente
It would be helpful to have the option to rewind each module instead of starting all the way over. The material moves fast, and if you miss something, you need to start that section (sometimes a few minutes long) all over again. A time bar and rewinding would help make the course more accessible.
Bueno conveniente
Good and convenient
The AAA food handler on-line training has been a great experience! I did not know what to expect but the information provided was very helpful and left no room for questions. I felt very informed and equipped to move forward to take and pass my food manager’s certification.
Seems how i have to take this course for work i found this not as boring as others. was easy to follow and understand.
Great Program, I was able to do it on my own pace!
excellent and very educational course.
Does a wonderful job at being informative and entertaining with graphics, facts, and interactives!
Very informative. Great info.
Very informative
It was easy, quick, and very informative!
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Food Manager Reviews
4.9
I enjoyed watching the videos it helped me understand and know about the food industry and the people safety’s.
Very concise, clear and current material, that moved at a good pace to help retain information, but not bore me and lose my attention. Well recommended.
a majority of the course did not have any audio and the closed captioning needs to be turned on manually every time.
i enjoyed the course it was simple and effective at getting the point across for the things i needed to know to obtain my food handlers certificate
This website is probably the fastest to take your quiz. And for the price you can’t beat it
i loved this training
This course was straightforward, but is delivered in a way that makes it very digestible. Overall, very informative & manages to keep the audiences attention. Nothing hard to understand.
Helpful
Learned everything I needed to know.
I have learn more about food safety and prevention infection for food diseases. It’s very informative and easy to understand every topic.
All good, but consider letting modules to be backed up to allow time to take notes on temps and acronyms. Otherwise very well presented. Thanks!
This was a great course, it laid out everything needed to know while using fun and engaging layouts and interactive prompts along the way!
informative and kept my interest
Food Manager was great.
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4.8
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