Get Your Texas Food Handlers Card Online, Today

Two years from the date it's issued, and it's valid everywhere in Texas. The expiration date prints right on your card. When it comes due, there's no renewal form or fee to the state: you take an accredited course again and get a new card.

Yes. License, certificate, certification, permit, card: people use all of them, and they mean the same DSHS credential. Texas officially calls it a food handler card.

No. One accredited card covers every city and county in Texas. State law says a worker who completes an accredited course has met any local health department's training and permitting requirements, and local jurisdictions can't charge a fee or issue their own card on top of it. SB 1008 reinforced that. If a job posting still mentions a city card, it's out of date.

Yes. This course is DSHS-accredited, which is exactly what Texas requires: an accredited food handler course completed within 30 days of your start date. Your employer keeps a copy of your certificate on file, and it holds up in any county and with any health inspector in the state.

Sí. El curso completo, la evaluación y tu certificado están disponibles en español, con el mismo contenido aprobado por el estado. Cambia de idioma en cualquier momento. → /es/

You take it again, free, as many times as you need. The assessment covers the six topics the course just taught, with no trick questions, and the material is right there if you want to review a section first. Most people pass on the first try.