FOODSAFE Level 1 study guide and books
Start with the free official guide — it is what the test is written from. Books only help if you want printed practice or a structured course.
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Official guide
Food Premises Regulation (B.C. Reg. 210/99)
Province of British Columbia · Free online
The B.C. regulation behind FOODSAFE: who must be certified, temperatures, hygiene, food safety and sanitation plans, pests and chemicals. Short enough to read in one sitting.
Food safety: easy ways to make food safer (HealthLinkBC File 59a)
HealthLinkBC · Free online / PDF
A plain-language summary of cleaning, separating, cooking and chilling food, the danger zone and safe leftovers. Good first reading before the course.
Writing a Food Safety Plan (Interior Health)
Interior Health · Free PDF · 2024
Explains critical control points, critical limits (cooking, cooling, reheating, hot holding) and corrective actions with sample plans. Covers our food safety plans topic.
FOODSAFE food safety resources
FOODSAFE, Province of British Columbia · Free PDFs
Free charts from the FOODSAFE program: receiving and storage, storage times, cooling, thermometers and foodborne illness. The course workbooks themselves are sold separately.