By state

Food handler card requirements by state

Food handler rules are set at the state level in some places and the county level in others, sometimes both at once. We publish a state only once we can cite a real source for it.

3 states below have a real statewide training and card requirement we could trace to a statute. 1 more have a real statewide baseline with county-level variation on top of it. That is 4 of 50 states published so far, not all 50 -- this page grows as each additional state gets the same individual verification, not a table filled in from a single aggregator source.

One honest limitation on every mandate-state page here: several states specifically require training from an accredited provider, and we have not yet confirmed accreditation status for our own course. Each page says so directly rather than implying our course satisfies a requirement we have not verified it does.

States with a statewide requirement

Texas
Texas Health and Safety Code § 438.046; Texas Administrative Code Rule § 228.31
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Illinois
410 ILCS 625 (Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act)
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Utah
Utah Administrative Code R392-103
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States with a statewide baseline plus county variation

California
California Health and Safety Code §§ 113947-113948
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