Texas Food Handler Card

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Texas 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

Texas requires that you earn a food handler card if you work at a food establishment that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food within 30 days of employment (1).

This includes (2):

restaurants
retail food stores
catering operations
markets
food banks
institutions

Conversely, you are not required to earn a food handler card if you work at one of the following places (2, 3):

an establishment that offers only prepackaged foods that don’t require time or temperature controls
a produce stand that offers only whole, uncut fresh fruits and vegetables
a food processing plant
a kitchen in a private home that prepares food for sale or service that doesn’t require time or temperature controls
a bed and breakfast facility

However, if you work at one of these places, your employer may still require that you earn a food handler card due to the importance of food safety.

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FAQs

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

You can learn and test and two hours or less.

Texas requires that you earn a food handler card if you work at a food establishment that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food within 30 days of employment.

This includes:

restaurants
retail food stores
catering operations
markets
food banks
institutions

Conversely, you are not required to earn a food handler card if you work at one of the following places:

an establishment that offers only prepackaged foods that don’t require time or temperature controls
a produce stand that offers only whole, uncut fresh fruits and vegetables
a food processing plant
a kitchen in a private home that prepares food for sale or service that doesn’t require time or temperature controls
a bed and breakfast facility

However, if you work at one of these places, your employer may still require that you earn a food handler card due to the importance of food safety.

Your FoodSafePal food handler card will be valid throughout Texas.

Your Texas food handler card is valid for two years from the date you earn it.

The cost to earn your Texas 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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