Basic Food Safety Awareness
Learn the fundamentals of keeping food safe, preventing foodborne illness, and protecting customers.
What you will learn
- Food safety means controlling hazards so that food is safe to eat from receiving until service.
- Unsafe food can cause illness, customer complaints, legal action, and loss of business reputation.
- Food can become unsafe through biological, chemical, physical, or allergen contamination.
- Food handlers must understand how their personal hygiene, work habits, and time management affect safety.