*Safe Food Handler Program is now available in Spanish, Chinese and other languages!

Safe Food Handler is built for ILLINOIS. For you. Your career. For business. Get the proof

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  • Accredited by ANAB (ANSI).
  • Approved by Illinois Department of Public Health as found here.
  • Meets Illinois Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act (410 ILCS 625/3.05)
  • Supports Cape Girardeau, Moline, Rock Island, Davenport, Mount Vernon, Harrisburg, Paducah, Rockford, Bloomington, Peoria, Springfield, Champaign, Chicago and others.
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You get a wallet-size food handler card(badge) and 5'' x 7'' program certificate
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A woman proudly displays a food handler certificate, symbolizing her expertise in safe food handling.
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Your THREE Steps to Program Completion

  1. Prepare
    • Use a browser or smartphone*
    • Register with a secure email address
    • Pay the program fee
    • English language only
    • About two total hours*
  2. Train
    • First use the LEARN feature of each course level, one per learning objective
    • Then QUIZ to build recall & measure skills
    • Training accelerators speed up your own progress
  3. Pass
    • Use the exam and get a detailed exam report to show any learning needs.
    • As needed, you are guided to re-train on just your learning needs. Then use the exam again! As many times as you need.
    • When you pass, you’ll receive the certificate and badge in email
    • Order physical badge (optional)
Certificate Program Detail
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*The program works great on a smartphone (Apple or Android)! The native app guides you quickly to completion. Use a few small sessions, or complete the program all at once. You can easily switch your training between web, to iPhone, to Android. Just sign in and you’ll see all your work, certificate, and badge auto-saved in the cloud.

Your COGNETI Training Advantages
Safe Food Handler is the best food card program in the industry! It’s built for food-service professionals.
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Top Instructional Quality
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The course will guide you to meeting seven food handler training objectives. These objectives are taken directly from the USDA’s 2021 Food Code, as selected by industry and food science experts. Each training objective has from 10 to 20 instructional points made of instructional content (text, pictures, audio, video), quiz questions used to build recall, and exam questions to assess that training objectives are met. Cogneti’s instructional design supports very useful features that make training fast and efficient! These include learning accelerators, active exams & assessments, and tagging of learning needs.
Activity Tracking
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Activity tracks are always updated each time the user views an instructional page. Each read page is shown with a check mark in a navigation pane.
Progress Tracking
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Metrics are key to learning performance. For each level a progress report shows the detail of assessed skill and time to complete a quiz
Accelerated Recall
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Your recall is accelerated by Cogneti quizzing, using Cogneti’s coins and peek feature. It is very useful way for you to learn and remember the course instruction.
As you view instruction, you’ll earn coins. When you use the quiz, the coins are used to peek at the course content related to the question.
Quizzes are dynamically created to cover all testable instruction points (TIPs).
This is a VERY fast and effective way to build subject recall. Focus on quizzing, and you’ll build expertise fast.
This feature is a favorite of our top instructional designers!
Skill Assessment
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The Safe Food Handler program actively tracks your real training progress. The home page displays a measured skill for each course level, based on your learning, quizzing, and exam activity.
This is why food service professionals love Cogneti! You end up fully skilled and expert when you use Safe Food Handler.
Tagged Learning Needs
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After each exam attempt, any learning needs are dynamically assessed and tagged as high (red), medium (orange), or low (yellow).
You may then focus on just those learning needs.
The tagging is done by marking specific course content. You are then guided to take a quiz on that specific content. This reinforces your training and recall.
Full Mobile App Experience
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The Safe Food Handler mobile app lowers your training time and effort. The app is designed specifically for iOS and Android mobile devices. A self-guided workflow easily moves you from registration to learning, quizzing, and examination. Your badge and certificate are immediately available in the app.
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Safe Food Handler is training the next generation of FOOD SERVICE LEADERS right now!


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