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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
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Very educational and easy to follow along with and learn!
Puede hacer el curso completo en español, aunque hablo y entiendo inglés; español es mi idioma materno y me siento mucho más cómoda con el
All the videos kept my attention all the way through.
Was able to follow the training easily and pass the test the 1st time!
Very easy to understand and informative
Fast and educational !!
Fast and educational !!
COURSE WAS EASY TO KEEP TRACK OF. INTERESTENGINLY INSTERESTFULL
It was great.
C
Very good and improving training.
This course is assessable to all, it easy to understand, and suitable to all learning styles.
This was very informative!
The course explained thoroughly upon how to safely handle and store food, proper temperatures and storing food in a safe manner. This was great to become more knowledgeable upon how to correctly handle food and what I can do to prevent illness when doing so.
Great training with lots of information
Great course
Food Manager Reviews
4.9
b
Thank you. Well done training program.
Loved the ability to pause the course and come back at any time. Only thing that would make it better would be the ability to rewind/fast forward through a slide so rewatching a slide isn’t necessary if something is missed.
Covered a lot of stuff without feeling like a punishment. Which is not easy with any kind of training.
very informative, and easy to follow, Thank you
I loved how informative and easy this course was !
exelente
Great and very elaborate training material
este vcurso me ha servido mucho wen cuestion de muchas cosas para bien del negocio y en lo personal es un curso muy completo todo m uy bien esplicado y desarroyado para el entendimiento de las personas
ME GUSTO ,LA FORMA DEL FONDO AL IR EXPLICANDO ME FACILITO MAS ENTENDERLO,INTERESANTE
I like the explanation the course . very easy to understand.
Muy bien explicado. Buen recordatorio de las cosas que tal vez hacemos en casa pero no se debe de hacer cuando trabajamos en lugares comerciales.
Excelente curso gracias ☺️
I enjoyed the course. Received a lot of good information
and he has learned many things that he did not yet know about the kitchen and a restaurant is something very affective and good for you you learn good things and very suitable and easy to manipulate
Alcohol Training Reviews
4.8
Awesome & easy
Good
very nice
This course took me 4 hours and other websites took about 2. To take the RBS exam it makes you email and wait for a link while others you don’t need to.
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4.9
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Food Manager Reviews
4.9
Would not let me to get my Certificate when I passed . To press complete when I thought I was done.
Good information
rawr
Passed
great
c
took awhile
pay attention
It is important to know this information to keep our families safe
Training was easy with this course
I learned a great deal of stuff about food.
Pay attention and your going to get mostly everything right
It’s really easy and if u get stuck on a question ask Google lol
I learned a lot about working in the kitchen then I did before I took the test
It was fine.
Knowledge is wealth.
Alcohol Training Reviews
4.8
Awesome & easy
Good
very nice
This course took me 4 hours and other websites took about 2. To take the RBS exam it makes you email and wait for a link while others you don’t need to.
Food Allergen Reviews
5.0
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4.9
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