The Division of Health shall provide food-handling
training courses periodically to persons engaged in the business of
preparing, handling, or processing of foods intended for human consumption.
A food-handling training course certificate shall
be issued by the Division of Health to individuals upon successful
completion of the food-handling training course. Certificates shall
bear an expiration date of three years after issuance.
A food establishment owner or any food handler under
his employ may be required, at the direction of the Health Officer,
to complete the food-handling training course offered by the Division
of Health or an equivalent food-handling training course.
The Health Officer may require food handlers who will
be operating a temporary food establishment to first complete a food-handling
training course offered by the Division of Health if these food handlers
are preparing potentially hazardous food.
A food establishment owner or any food handler directed
by the Health Officer to complete food-handling training and who fails
to do so shall be subject to the general penalty provisions of the
Code of the City of Passaic.