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Caring About Food Safety

Try the new free online Caring About Food Safety course. It is a quick and fun way to learn some of the facts about food safety. When you complete the course there is an online test. When you successfully complete the test you can print your certificate of completion. This short and informative online course is made available through the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport.

The "Caring About Food Safety" course is a 1.5 hour self-guided course about the safe and healthy preparation and handling of food. The course, offered at no cost, is designed to raise awareness about protecting public health by preventing the spread of food-borne illness.

The course is comprised of six interactive sections, which can take 1.5 hours or less to complete:

Why Learn about Food Safety Storing Food Cooking Food

Buying Food Preparing Food Cleaning Up

Test Your Knowledge is the multiple-choice quiz participants take once they have worked through the other sections.

The course is designed for anybody who prepares, handles or serves food to people beyond their immediate friends and family. It will be particularly useful for people whose clients are susceptible to food-borne illness, and for whom there are no mandated food-safety training requirements. Visit the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport website
 

Other Food Safety Information and Courses

An Introduction to Online Food Safety

FOODSAFE Level 1 is a food-handling, sanitation and work-safety course designed for frontline food-service workers such as cooks, servers, bus-persons, dishwashers and deli workers. The course covers important food-safety and worker-safety Information - including food-borne illness, receiving and storing food, preparing food, serving food, cleaning and sanitizing.

FOODSAFE Level 2 is designed for food-service owners, managers, kitchen managers, executive chefs and others who are responsible for managing food safety in food-service establishments.

MarketSafe program is designed to increase awareness and knowledge of food safety and safe food-handling procedures for farmers' market vendors, market managers, farm-gate vendors, home-kitchen small-scale food processors, and others who make, bake or produce food products for public consumption outside regulated food-service establishments.

B.C. Public Health Act, the Food Premises Regulation