Food Safety Events

Food Safety for Family Day Care Providers Online Course

Food Safety for Family Day Care Providers is a 4-week long online mini-course designed for child care providers, since young children are especially vulnerable to foodborne illness. Students have access to the course 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Our participants indicated that it took an average of 8 hours to complete the course over a period of 4 weeks.

Funded by Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, this course teaches important food safety information and skills for the safe feeding and care of young children in diverse day care settings. It has been approved for 2 hours toward the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education/CACFP 6-hour training requirement. Participants completing the course will receive a certificate from University of Massachusetts Amherst documenting 8 hours of training.

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Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Food Safety

          The next GAPs online course will be offered beginning July 7, 2010 

          The next face-to-face GAPs GAPs workshop will be conducted this fall. Learn more…

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) Training

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ServSafe® Food Protection Manager Certification*

Summer 2010 Class Schedule:

• June 23, 2010 and June 30, 2010 in Worcester MA (9:00 AM–4:00 PM on each day)

• June 25, 2010 and July 2, 2010 in Worcester MA (9:00 AM–4:00 PM on each day)

For more information, contact Cindy Hubbard at 413-545-6539 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it