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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
VERY QUICK AND PRETTY EASY.
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The videos honestly explained everything so well that the test was pretty easy.
The overall experience, while time consuming, was very straight forward and I am satisfied with my experience
Was it boring? Yeah. But was it to the point? Also yes. This training didn’t drag on and gave clear information on how to handle food in a safe way. I took a star away because some of the questions in the exam were so badly worded I had to decode what they meant. It was only a couple questions but annoying enough to be an issue.
Learned a lot of things on how to prepare food properly.
Was informative and easy to follow
I don’t know what I scored. Did I pass or fail. No email no text with results I have no idea. Besides that it was a good course good job
The course was easily understood due to the explanations provided with each category.
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Most Food handlers course’s I’ve taken takes hours and this one was just under an hour and was easy to follow
This course was informative but the narrator sounded somewhat like a robot which could be easy to lose focus with.
Food Manager Reviews
4.9
I enjoyed Maria and the course was very informative, and the interaction kept me engaged.
Great Info
I learned a lot of valuable information when managing food and am excited for the next steps!
Everything was explained in a very logical manner and easy to comprehend.
The information is well taught and very usefull.
The course was very informative and detailed I highly recommended to others.
Like that it hit every point. The pictures on power point very insightful.
I think that this course is very informative and straightforward. I enjoyed it, and I learned a few things that I did not know before taking it.
The content was easy to follow and informative.
Overall, it gave a nice summation of the expectations and reality of being a feed manager.
It was very useful and I learnt a lot of useful information regarding food handling. Thanks to AAA
Covered all the material and easy to follow
I live in NJ and am required to take the Food Manager course to become a certified Cottage Kitchen home baker. The AAA Food Handler course was informative and fast. The time passed pleasantly and I hopefully learned a few things I didn’t already know! It was very easy to navigate and I look forward to taking the practice tests with enough success to be able to take the real one shortly.
I appreciate having the opportunity to correctly manage and operate my food service business. This is a great streamlined program that I could fit in to my busy schedule. Thank you!
New to the industry this course was Very informative, I learned ALOT
Very informative and well explained.
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Food Manager Reviews
4.9
Awesome
It would be a lot better if you weren’t forced to watch all 50 min of videos.
Training seems to be thorough and well paced. I guess we’ll see when the test is scored.
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a lot of things that are good to know about becoming ill from how food places operate
Taking course with AAA is easy and accessible. It also give me time to study more because i can go back to the module for easy access of studying and reading
I received the training I needed in an easy to follow, non-painful, way! Thank you!
All went well with training. Very informative and i feel like it set you up for success!
For a mandatory course..it was pretty good.
super easy and cheap
Videos were informative and easy to watch. Test was straightforward.
FatTom si an acronyms that highlights 6 stages bacteria can grow faster in food. These are:
Food – Acidity – Temperature – Time – Oxygen – Moisture.
While all of them are very important to know, for me the stand out one is Temperature. It shows you the diffence between the cooking temperature, the fridge temperature and the danger zone temperature which are some key elemeents to know in order to prevent the growth of bacteria in food.
Comprehensive but easy to follow and understand
It was incredibly hard to stay focused after the 1 hour mark and feel if I didn’t already do food handling training before, I would have struggled with the exam.
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