Keep food safe!

Welcome to the Capital Area Food Bank's Safe Food Handling training site.

The resources on this site will provide basic knowledge relating to keeping food safe as it moves from the

Capital Area Food Bank to your organization - and then on to clients.

FOOD-BORNE ILLNESSES -- DID YOU KNOW?

• There are 76 estimated food-borne illness outbreaks each year...
• Leading to 325,000 estimated hospitalizations...
• Resulting in 5,000 estimated deaths.

Take this online training to discover how safe food handling can reduce health risks for your agency and your clients.

Safe food handling training is required of all partner agencies of the Capital Area Food Bank. This 10-15 minute training will fulfill requirements for programs that do NOT prepare food on-site. Programs that prepare food will need full certification. See this website for reduced-rate certification options.

Click here to begin the training.