Servsafe Essentials

With concern about foodborne illness increasing among consumers, it is more important than ever for restaurants and foodservice operations to be able to assure customers that the food they are eating is safe. This book teaches basic food safety concepts and prepares readers for the ServSafe® Food Protection Manager Certification Examination.

This text, with its streamlined and simplified content, covers principles necessary to maintain food safety within a foodservice operation. It reflects the latest FDA Food Code and prepares people for the ServSafe® Food Protection Manager Certification Exam. Heavily illustrated, this full-color book provides useful pedagogical tools for understanding food-safety knowledge, essentials, and fundamental concepts.

Includes detachable examination answer sheet in front of book.

"Code ES6R; Version v.1404"--Page 4 of cover.

[This book is] designed ... to enhance your ability to learn and retain the food-safety knowledge that is essential to keep your establishment safe.-Features of the ServSafe Essentials.

With a new look and design, the Third Edition of ServSafe Essentials offers significantly new, simplified, streamlined content to make complicated concepts easer to learn and easier to manage. Content has been revised to include updates from the recently released 2003 supplement to the 2001 FDA Food Code, as well as new science-based and industry best practices. Other features include a new section for use and reference by managers at their operation; more visual representation of content through the use of new icons, illustrations and photographs; all new multiple-choice study questions, and more. It prepares students for the ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification Examination.