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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
Easy to follow, well paced information, and affordable!
Quick and painless I suppose.
This was a good course for handling food safety. The modules covered a wide range of topics to better protect myself as well as those I would be serving food to.
Na
Content is easy to comprehend and modules are interactive to keep you engaged. Was able to complete the course in about 2 hours.
even though I did not want to do this, I received a lot of helpful information and learned more about preparation and cooking than I thought I would.
Good
Easy to maneuver and understand great coarse
The whole module was very good structured and easy to understand
This process overall took about an hour and a half. I passed, and the questions were in direct correlation to what we learned.
Thank you so much I’ve learned alot
Feliz gracias
Was very informative and enlightening.
Food Manager Reviews
4.9
Informative. I believe the time temperature controls, food borne illness and sanitation are the most important.
It was a qiuick and easy course. Was able to understand it with no problem
un curso fácil,diverido pero sobre todo muy informativo
Great course, would recommend it to anyone in the food service industry
I appreciated the flow of the training course and it was fairly easy to obtain the information being taught.
Buena para aprender cosas diferentes acerca de como trabajar con la comida
detail on food safety.
THE COURSE WAS VERY INFORMATIVE AND COVERED A VARIOUS AND REQUIRED TOPICS AND THE PRACTICES QUIZES ENSURED YOUR RETENTION OF THE COVERED SUBJECT
This course was very informative and easy to understand.
Very detailed course
Fast, easy, and educational
At first I was skeptical to try it and that it would be complicated but every section had a review and helped with understanding & getting prepared for the exam. Definitely recommend to use this method.
Not as intimidating as I thought it would be. I’ve taken regular servsafe trainings many times over the years and this was not much different than those.
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4.9
Very great training
great course
This training was wonderful. It was informative and easy to understand.
An easy and quick way to learn about being a food handler. Very informative!
This course really helped me understand better food safety! And helpful to be able to continue making treats for people safely.
Thank you, was easy, quick fast!
Such a complete course
Excellent information, easy to understand everything you need to know, and how to run a food establishment properly.
Na
This is a great training course.
The Class was very Informative. I just wish I would have gotten the results of the test rather then just that I passed so I would know where I went wrong if I went wrong anywhere.
Good information to know
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