HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES

Food Safety Training

The Province has launched a new self-guided online course on how to safely handle and prepare food so you can reduce the risk of food-borne illnesses caused by contamination.

Caring About Food Safety, an interactive tutorial available online at no cost for all British Columbians, includes six sections that show step-by-step how to safely buy, store, prepare and cook food, as well as clean up afterwards.

The web-based, interactive course will benefit people who prepare food in work, community and home environments, where it is not always necessary for them to hold a food training certificate. It’s available in multiple languages at www.foodsafety.gov.bc.ca , as well as on DVD.

Under the Health Act’s food premises regulation, every operator of a food service establishment must hold a certificate for completion of a food-handler training program such as FoodSafe, and must ensure that at least one certified employee is always present if the operator is absent. However, this does not apply where food is prepared and served in family child care, residential-care facilities for six or fewer persons, community groups and small business environments.

Government of BC News Release