Food Safety

SF's Michael Bauer investigates the new CA Food Handler Card law and determines that "...if you look closely at the bill, you’ll see why it’s critically flawed...Turns out only a narrow band of people who work with food actually will be required to take the test. If you work in a food truck, pop-up restaurant or school cafeteria, or you prepare food sold in a grocery store, you don’t have to have the card...If you’recovered by a collective bargaining agreement — i.e., a member of a union...[you] get a pass...grocery stores [are] exempted because they don’t prepare food...So while...900,000 workers will be trained, I’m more concerned about the hundreds of thousands who don’t have to get the card." [SF Gate]