South Carolina Food Handler Card

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Accepted by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
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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

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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Very engaging and more interesting than other courses I have taken.

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

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It was clear and understandable. I really liked it.

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FAQs

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

You can learn and test and two hours or less.

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).

A foodservice establishments includes:

restaurants
concession stands
retail food stores
convenience stores
mobile food stand or trucks
school cafeterias
licensed daycare homes or facilities
healthcare facilities, such as a nursing home, assisted living facility, or hospital

Your FoodSafePal food handler card will be valid throughout South Carolina.

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

The cost to earn your South Carolina 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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