About cafoodhandlercardonline.com
What this site is
cafoodhandlercardonline.com is an independent aggregator that explains the California Department of Public Health's ANAB-delegated food handler card requirement and compares ANAB-accredited, roster-confirmed providers; it does not teach, deliver, or sell the course itself. We publish the requirement in plain language, keep a provider comparison current, and link out to providers so a reader can enroll directly with them.
What this site is not
This site is not the California Department of Public Health, not the ANSI National Accreditation Board, not a government agency, and does not issue the California food handler card or any county card described here. This site is not any of the providers listed on approved providers; we do not operate a course, and enrolling through one of our links means enrolling directly with that provider under that provider's own terms.
This site may earn a commission on one provider link (360training/Learn2Serve). See affiliate disclosure for the full statement; we do not hide this, and it does not change the requirement information this site publishes.
Who verifies the content on this site
Every regulator fact on this site - hours, fees, hire windows, validity periods, and which providers are ANAB-accredited - is checked against California's own published statute (Health and Safety Code Sections 113947 to 113948), ANAB's own live accreditation directory, a county's own published program page, or a provider's own current pricing page, before it is published. A fact that cannot be sourced this way is not presented as confirmed. Because California statute delegates provider approval to ANAB rather than running its own list, this site treats the ANAB accreditation directory as the operative, regulator-equivalent roster, consistent with the state's own statutory design.
How often this site is reviewed
Every page on this site carries a "last verified" and "next review" date in its own metadata, and the default review cycle is every six months unless a specific statute, fee, or county ordinance changes sooner, in which case the affected page is updated immediately and the dates change with it.
Contact
This site does not currently operate a public contact address. For a question about the statewide or county program itself, contact the relevant California county Environmental Health department directly. For a question about a specific provider's course, contact that provider directly using the link on approved providers.
Sources
| Fact | Value | Authority | URL | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regulator of record for the California food handler card | California Department of Public Health (CDPH) administers the statute; HSC 113948(b)(2) delegates the accreditation standard to ANAB | California Legislative Information (HSC 113948(b)(2)) | https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=113948 | 2026-09-19 |
| Operative provider roster | ANAB accreditation directory, 25 organizations statewide | ANSI National Accreditation Board | https://anabpd.ansi.org/accreditation/credentialing/certificate-issuers/AllDirectoryListing?prgID=228,238&statusID=4 | 2026-09-20 |