Food Handler

Course Abstract

80 minutes

Ensure your non-managerial staff knows how to safely handle food with this comprehensive, interactive food handler program from @MenuTrinfo. With five modules plus a 40-question final exam, this FDA Food Code-compliant course will prepare your team to serve your guests safely. Modules include Foundations of Food Safety, Personal Hygiene, TCS Foods, Preventing Cross-Contamination, and Cleaning and Sanitizing. This ANSI-accredited program meets requirements in 14 states and is accepted but not required in 40 states. 

• Discover how food can make people sick after being contaminated by physical, chemical, or biological hazards
  
  
• Identify symptoms, diagnoses, or illness exposure that must be reported to a manager according to the FDA Food Code
  
  
• Understand the behavior of food handlers and how it directly affects the safety of food

• Learn how to keep hands, body, workplace, and equipment clean to prevent contaminating food and food-contact surfaces
  
  
• Find out how to use appropriate barriers to prevent bare-hand contact with food
  
  
• Identify the appropriate time and temperature requirements for keeping food safe during specific stages in the flow of meals