New Mexico

Food Manager Training

The My Food Service License New Mexico Certified Food Protection Manager (CFPM) course provides food safety training, exams, and educational materials to foodservice managers.

The program blends the latest FDA Food Code, food safety research, and years of food sanitation training experience. Managers learn to implement essential food safety practices and create a culture of food safety. All content and materials are based on actual job tasks identified by foodservice industry experts.

The My Food Service License New Mexico Certified Food Protection Manager course is self-paced and allows students the ability to start and stop throughout the course. Hours of video, text, and interactive quizzes and puzzles allow students to learn through various learning styles.

Content covered in our course includes:

- The Importance of Food Safety Education
- An Overview of Foodborne Illness
- Chemical, Physical and Biological Contaminants
- Foodborne Illnesses and Intoxications
- The Flow of Food
- HACCP
- Cleaning and Sanitation
- Pest Control
- The A.L.E.R.T System
- F.A.T.T.O.M
- Practice Exams and quizzes and much more...

Food Handler Training

UPDATE: Employees are to have their handler card within 30 days of being hired

My Food Service License provides online food handler training. Food handler training is required in most areas of New Mexico and this course provides excellent food worker training to teach the important principles of food safety to food handlers.

A food handler is defined by law as a person who works in a food facility and performs any duties that involve the preparation, storage, or service of food in a food facility.

This course takes approximately one hour to complete and, upon successful completion, provides a printable food handler certificate. This certificate is good for up to five years.

This course is not to prepare workers to take the Food Protection Manager certification exam. The course to study for the certification exam is the Food Protection Manager Certification Course.

This training is an approved food handler course.

The exam is given at the end of the course and a proctor is not required.

The course is available in English and Spanish,

Please contact your local regulatory agency for more information.

New Mexico Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is a food handler card

A: It is a card issued to an individual after completing a food handler training program

Q: Who needs to get a food handler card?

A: All employees, meaning any individual working with unpackaged food, food equipment, or utensils or food contact services.

Q: How long is the card valid

A: 3 years

Q: How long do I have to obtain the card

A: Within 30 days of employment

Q: Who does not need a food handler card

A: Certified Food Protection Managers, Employees who do not function as food employees (host or cashier). Food employees or volunteers working as food employees for charitable organizations serving the needy as long as there is a person in charge at all times. Food Handlers of temporary establishments as long as there is a person in charge in the booth during all hours of operation that carriers a Certified Food Protection Manager or has a valid Food handler Card.

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State Requirements: Certification is recommended but not required.

Food Protection Manager: Recommended but not required.

Food Handlers: Required - must take an approved course.

Exceptions: None.

Manager Training Hours: Recommended but not required.

Food Handler Course: Required to take an approved course.

Food Manager Certification and Food Handler Certificate Renewal: Food Manager every 5 years; Food Handler every 5 years.