South Carolina Food Handler Card
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South Carolina-Accepted 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
South Carolina requires that the person in charge at each food establishment earn a food handler card or be a certified food protection manager (CFPM) (1).
Therefore, if you’re employed at one of the following places, you may need to earn a food handler card:
- restaurant
- concession stand
- retail food store
- convenience store
- mobile food stand or truck
- school cafeteria
- licensed daycare home or facility
- healthcare facility, such as a nursing home, assisted living facility, or hospital
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