Maryland Food Handler Card

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Maryland Food Handler Training

Learn how to handle, prepare, and serve food safely, no matter your work setting.

Learn about important food safety principles:

identify how food becomes unsafe and leads to foodborne illnesses
identify when and which symptoms and illnesses must be reported
recognize proper hand hygiene techniques and good personal grooming habits to prevent food and food-contact surface contamination
recognize best practices to keep food safe throughout its flow by using time and temperature controls
describe how to maintain a clean environment and prevent cross-contact

Maryland has no law that requires a food handler card to work at a food establishment, but the Maryland food code requires that all food workers receive training in proper food handling and sanitation as it relates to their assigned duties (1).

Therefore, your employer may still require you to earn a Maryland food handler card.

What Our Learners Think

I felt it was a very simple, easy, and straight to the point course, and I really enjoyed it.

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Enjoyed this experience. Easy material.

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Love the illustrations — kept my attention. And I suffer from ADHD so this made learning easy and fun!

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It worked well for me, so I’d be happy to recommend it to others.

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FAQs

To earn your Maryland food handlers card, simply watch the videos, and pass the test.

You can learn and test and two hours or less.

While strongly recommended, Maryland has no law that requires a food handler card to work at a food establishment, but your employer may still require it.

Your FoodSafePal food handler card will be valid throughout Maryland.

Your Maryland food handler card is valid for three years from the date you earn it.

The cost to earn your Maryland food handler card with FoodSafePal is $15.

The test consists of 40 multiple-choice questions, and you need to answer at least 28 of them (70%) to pass.

If you don’t pass the first time, you’re allowed one free retake.

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