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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
Speed the system up and everything is fine
I would do it again
This information could be beneficial for our daily bases food safety at work and even in our own homes to our families. I really learned more about storing and the right cooking temperature for different proteins !!
Plus, all type of cross contamination that could cause a huge risk to us.
It was a good course to do and learn foodsafety
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Very lengthy but informative
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This was a very interesting and informative course. It kept my attention and was not boring.
Good info
The food handling course was easy to follow and very helpful. I learned how to keep food safe, clean, and stored the right way. The lessons were clear, and now I feel more confident about working with food safely.
Super fast and easy to understand
GOOD
Food Manager Reviews
4.9
The course was very informative.
it was very good course and i leared alot from it that will help me from work
Informative and to the point.
Honestly, as someone who’s suffered many a death-by-powerpoint in the navy, I was pleasantly surprised at how effective this training was. Beautifully done 😀
Thanks to my local health inspector Maria for the training, and presenting clear guidelines to help me become a better food manager. 😉 👉
all the videos were really insightful and made the course a little fun
I love the format. Great modules.
Very informative
This was a very well put together training as well as super complex! I was very satisfied with it.
Very thorough and informative. I liked how you can stop and start the training.
excellent
the training program is extremely easy to navigate and informative. AAA allows you to work at your own pace. I highly recommend this company. Everything you need right in one place and at a low cost
Good, but captions only work half the time/synced correctly or showing up at all. Not great for people with hearing impairments.
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4.9
Excellent program
great course
Perfect course, easy to comprehend.
The site was user-friendly and easy to navigate.
It took a lot longer than 2 hours but, in the end, it was very thorough, and I feel confident in taking the exam immediately!
Too many modules and many are too short. Some have one sentence. makes it boring and time consuming.
It was great! I learned a lot.
The videos are short and to the point.
Very well put together course with clear instructions and easy to understand modules. I found everything to be useful, and I will perform all of these correctly when I start my food business. Very, very informative! Thank you!
The course was easy to follow. It also had plenty of interaction through out the exam which made it good to observe the information. The price was really affordable as well. 10/10
The videos where very helpful and where super easy to understand.
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