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Basic Food Safety Training - From Farm to Fork

Online
4-5 hours
Free

Course Content

Navigate the Essentials of Food Safety to Ensure Health and Well-being, with this free online course. Dive into the critical world of food safety with this comprehensive training, tailored for food handlers, kitchen staff, and anyone interested in maintaining the highest standards of food hygiene and safety. In this course, you will learn about foodborne illnesses, including their types, symptoms, and impact on public health. Additionally, you will study the importance of personal hygiene in food safety, and principles of safe food handling.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID192278
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration4-5 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathIn This Free Course, You Will Learn How To
• Explain the scientific reasons behind foodborne illnesses and ways to prevent them
• Discuss the importance of food safety in protecting consumers from foodborne illnesses related to consuming contaminated
• Summarise comprehensive personal hygiene practices in areas where food is handled to ensure food safety
• Describe instructions on how to properly wash hands, including the most important times when it should be done
• Recognise safe food handling, storage, and preparation techniques to maintain food safety
• Outline temperature control methods to prevent food spoilage and contamination
• List the most common types of food contaminants that can cause food contamination
• Classify the risk groups and identify high-risk and low-risk foods, along with their respective preventive measures
Course Code1220

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