Providing healthy and safe food in child care is a key role for both center and home-based child care practitioners. Preventing foodborne illness (FBI), and making sure children are safe from choking risks and other food-related injuries, requires awareness and planning. This lesson describes guidelines for food safety practices that will enable child care providers to make food healthy and safe for the children in their care. (2 hours)
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Course objectives
- Understand the types and causes of foodborne illness.
- Identify safe food handling practices in the child care setting.
- Describe proper sanitization procedures for food surfaces and utensils.
- Explain basic principles of food storage and preparation.
- Discuss the importance of food safety in the child care setting.
