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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