Beginner
Food Handling Course B
- 19 Sections
- 262 Lessons
Introduction
2 Lessons
Table of Contents
2 Lessons
1. Food Hygiene
8 Lessons
- Food Hygiene
- The benefits of good hygiene in the food industry
- The costs of food poisoning and poor food hygiene
- 5 key principles of food hygiene according to WHO
- Kitchen - Can you identify any hazards?
- Kitchen - Can you identify any hazards?
- Local baker shop - Can you identify any hazards?
- Local baker shop - Can you identify any hazards?
2. Importance of Personal Health and Hygiene
31 Lessons
- Personal health and hygiene
- Personal care
- Hair
- Hands
- Apron
- Essential Hand Hygiene
- When should you wash your hands?
- Procedure for washing the hands
- Hand washing - Common missed areas
- Hand Washing - Procedure
- Video of a proper hand washing procedure
- Drying hands
- Cuts and spots
- Appropriate clothes
- Jewelry
- Unhygienic habits
- Personal health and hygiene
- Tasting food
- Personal health and hygiene - what to avoid
- Reporting illness
- Symptoms you must tell your employer about
- You might be a carrier...
- Germs
- Personal Cleanliness
- When extra care is needed...
- Extra care for babies
- Protective Clothing
- Food Handlers - Can you identify any hazards?
- Food Handlers - Can you identify any hazards?
- Kitchen design - Can you identify any hazards?
- Kitchen design - Can you identify any hazards?
3. Pathogenic organisms
6 Lessons
4. Cross-contamination
14 Lessons
- Cross-contamination - 3 ways
- Food to Food contamination
- People to Food Contamination
- Equipment to Food
- Prevent cross-contamination
- Chopping boards
- Prevent cross-contamination
- Groovy chopping boards
- Can openers
- Materials in contact with food
- Pay attention to other symbols
- Use clean plates
- Prevent cross-contamination
- Contamination Summary
5. High Risk Food
28 Lessons
- High Risk Food
- The Germometer
- Which beefburger is cooked to a safe internal temperature?
- Verdict
- How to use a thermometer properly
- Handling high risk foods
- Examples of high risk foods
- Rice
- The four C's
- Cooking
- How to check
- Warmth
- Use a thermometer in thinner foods
- Cooking Summary
- Different foods require different cooking temperatures
- Cooking temperatures
- Chilling
- Storage temperatures
- Refrigeration
- Fridge stock rotation
- Freezers
- Defrosting food
- How to cool food
- Temperature notes
- Sample Temperature Control charts
- Temperature control of Food
- Low risk foods
- Examples of low risk foods
6. Food Storage
23 Lessons
- Correct storage helps to:
- General Rules for Safe storage
- General Rules for Safe storage
- Temperature control
- Food Purchasing
- Delivery and unloading
- Take away food
- Reject swollen ends, rusty or damaged cans
- Always check contents
- Bug on Pastry
- Reputable suppliers
- Cupboards and Storage places
- Food Premises
- Food Premises - Location
- Food Premises - Equipment
- Internal structure, construction and fittings
- Food Premises - Ceilings
- Food Premises - Walls
- Food Premises - Walls
- Food Premises - Other structures
- Facilities - Water and ice supply
- Facilities - Drainage and Waste
- Local grocer shop - SPOT THE PROBLEM!
7. Cleaning
20 Lessons
- Cleaning
- Disinfection
- Detergents
- Disinfectant
- Sanitizer
- Cleaning methods
- Continuously clean during food preparation
- Avoid spreading bacteria
- Remember dirty cloths spread bacteria!!
- Storage of detergents
- Using cleaning products safely!
- Dishwashers - Industrial and domestic
- Colour code for cleaning
- Cleaning gloves
- Cleaning cloths
- Cleaning buckets
- Cleaning mops
- Cleaning schedule
- COSH regulations
- Cleaning and sanitising
8. Storage of waste
4 Lessons
9. Pest Control
16 Lessons
- Importance of control
- Main food pests
- Rodents
- Cockroaches
- Case study
- Ants
- Flies
- Domestic pets
- What attracts food pests to food premises?
- Hazards to food
- Importance of pest control
- General pest control
- Physical and Chemical controls
- Tips for effective pest control
- Pest control record sheet
- Pest control
10. Food Poisoning
35 Lessons
- Definition of food poisoning
- What is food poisoning?
- Understanding microorganisms
- Beneficial microorganisms
- What are bacteria?
- What bacteria need to grow?
- How bacteria reproduce and grow
- Illnesses linked to food poisoning
- Common causes of food poisoning
- Ways of getting food poisoning
- Foodborne infection
- Foodborne intoxication
- Chemical poisoning
- Food poisoning recognition
- Don't count on your senses to test for food safety!
- People with a higher risk of food borne illness
- Look at the picture - can you identify any hazards?
- Look at the picture - can you identify any hazards?
- Most common microorganisms causing food poisoning
- Clostridium perfringens
- Escherichia coli
- Salmonella
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Health warning on Spanish eggs after they are blamed for 136 cases of salmonella in UK
- Bacillus cereus
- Viruses
- Hepatitis A
- Noroviruses
- Rotaviruses
- Parasites
- Common types of parasites
- The food poisoning chain
- Prevent food poisoning
- Labelling of food products in Malta
- Food labelling regulations
11. Foreign bodies in food
7 Lessons
12. Food Allergies
8 Lessons
13. Food handlers and the law
10 Lessons
Press Releases
25 Lessons
- Local cases - Baby food Brand Holle
- Local cases - Wasabi plum shot Blue dragon
- Local cases - Beef sausages (frozen) Chef choice
- Local cases - Beef sausages (frozen) The British Premium Sausage
- Local cases - Beef burgers (frozen) The food house
- Local cases - Fresh Beef burgers Scotts supermarket
- Local cases Toy story Malamine plate - Trudeau
- Local cases - Lasagne alla Bolognese Artica Ricette Italiane
- Local cases - Fried hot wings Chicky world
- Local cases - hot and spicy chicken wings Miracle foods
- Local cases - Posate in plastica Casa Linea - Coccinella
- Local cases - Shrimps
- Local cases - parboiled long grained rice Xtra
- Local cases - Frozen shrimps Gambero Rosso Cinese Sgusciato
- Local cases - Quick hot chocolate with marshmallow Felfoldi
- Local cases - Baked beans in tomato sauce Aicha
- Local cases - Tahlita ghall-minestra mill-kcina taz-zija
- Local cases - Twistees DLF
- Overseas cases - Beef and Onion pie (UK)
- Overseas cases - White wine bottle (UK)
- Overseas cases - Deep fried cockroach in McDonalds hash brown (USA)
- Overseas cases - KFC fined after cockroach seen eating chip (UK)
- Overseas cases - Mice found in Chinese restaurant (UK)
- Overseas cases - Contaminated pizza slices and pizza dippers (USA)
- Overseas cases - School meals contaminated with E.coli (UK)
14. HACCP
7 Lessons
15. Animal by-products
15 Lessons
- Animal by-products
- Businesses that deal with animal by-products include
- Regulated at EU level by Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002
- Cannibalism ban
- Statistical quantities of animal by products produced in EU - Chicken
- Statistical quantities of animal by products produced in EU - Pigs
- Statistical quantities of animal by products produced in EU - Cows
- Statistical quantities of animal by products produced in EU - Sheep/Goats
- Classification of animal by-products
- Category 1
- Category 2
- Category 3
- Examples of animal by-products
- Examples of animal by-products
- Catering waste
THANK YOU!
1 Lesson
- Obtain Food Handling Licence B
- Requirement for People working in the food industry as per L.N. 178/2001 and involved in the preparation & Production of Food
- Suitable for: Chefs, Pastry Chefs, Butchers, Bakers, etc.
- Also a requirement for those applying for their Work Permit/ VISA, teachers and child carers.
- Course fully recognised by the Food Safety Commission.
- Licence valid for 5 years.
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Reviews
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Oct 31, 2026 @ 7:45 pm
Very educative
Good
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Oct 31, 2026 @ 4:06 pm
I got a good experience from this course and the content, easily and simple topic and understand.
I can easily understand the contents like food handing and managment.
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Oct 30, 2026 @ 5:36 pmIntresting!!!
You learn new things and ways about how to protect your life about food,it is really worth it someone to learn bout it .I really recommend it to everyone to do it!!!
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Oct 28, 2026 @ 3:05 pm
Amazing
It was a fun experience to learn new things and improving new skills
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Oct 27, 2026 @ 7:42 pmAwesome
I learn everything food handling cleaning and so many more
