Food Safety in Schools

For Food Workers

• Food Business Safety
  Food safety in restaurants, cafes, and other food and beverage establishments. Including food manager certification, food and beverage establishment licensing, regulations and food code, and more about keeping food safe in food business.
  
  
• Foodworker Illness Awareness
  Workers who prepare food while experiencing diarrhea and/or vomiting are frequently linked to foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurants and other retail food outlets.
  Restrictions | Decision Guide | Posters
  
  
• Food Safety and Sanitation
  Minnesota Department of Education website for School Nutrition Program sponsors about food safety and sanitation requirements including: food handling and storage practices, inspections, and emergency readiness planning. Attention: Non-MDH link
  
  
• National School Lunch Program
  Information about inspections for schools and sites participating in the National School Lunch Program. This information is comprised of tables and reports for schools and sites where food safety inspections were performed in each school year.
  
  
• Vomit Clean Up (PDF)
  A poster for food workers on the proper steps to take to clean up from a vomiting incident.
  

For Parents and Caregivers

• Packing Lunches and Take-out/Leftovers
  Perishable foods can cause illness when mishandled. Proper handling of the food and the leftovers is essential to ensure the food is safe for you to eat, get great tips for packing a meal for work or school and keeping it safe to prevent the risk of foodborne illness.
  
  
• Vomiting, Diarrhea, and Children: Info for Parents/Caregivers (PDF)
  As a parent or caregiver, there are simple steps you can take to help protect family and friends from vomiting and diarrheal illnesses.
  
  
• Vomiting, Diarrhea, and Children: Information for Child Care Providers (PDF)
  A poster for preschool and child care providers to educate on vomiting, diarrhea, and proper disease reporting.
  

Teaching Students

• Teaching Food Safety
  Are you teaching food safety to kids? You'll find many resources here to help you including curricula and tool kits.
  Safe or Sorry | Teaching Hand Hygiene

  
  

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Spotlight

Keeping Food Safe During Buffets or Picnics
Buffets or picnics can be a means to transmit disease among your guests if care is not taken in how the food is handled.

Food Safety Outdoors
General rules for outdoor food safety.

There's No Such Thing as "Stomach Flu" (PDF)
Complaints of "stomach flu" are usually norovirus, the most common cause of gastrointestinal illness.

Food Safety Basics: Preventing Foodborne Illness
There's a lot you can do to handle and prepare your food safely. Learn what you can do to prepare, serve and store food safely.

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