Selling and serving food remains a popular fundraising activity for many community groups. If you belong to a service club, church group, youth group, special interest club, or any non-profit organization, chances are good that you sell food. Any time your group sells food, it is essential to ensure that food safety practices are consistent and meet local and state regulations, create a food safety culture, and, more importantly, reduce the risk of foodborne illness.
University of Illinois Extension is offering the Serve It Safely, a non-restaurant food handles course, to assist you and your organization in learning about these food safety practices. The class is for volunteer group members and will focus on safe food handling practices, preparing, storing, and serving food for public consumption.
Serve It Safely will be held on Saturday, April 12, from 9:30 to noon at the Jo Daviess County Extension Office, 204 N. Vine Street, Elizabeth, IL. To register, call our office at (815) 858-2273 or visit us online at go.illinois.edu/jsw. Registration costs are $10 for the first person from an organization and $5 for each additional participant from the same organization (with one set of handouts per organization). Space is limited, so register today! If you need an accommodation to participate, please let our office know when you register. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
University of Illinois Extension develops educational programs, extends knowledge, and builds partnerships to support people, communities, and their environments as part of the state's land-grant institution. Extension serves as the leading public outreach effort for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences in all 102 Illinois counties through a network of 27 multi-county units and over 700 staff statewide. Extension’s mission is responsive to eight strategic priorities — community, economy, environment, food and agriculture, health, partnerships, technology and discovery, and workforce excellence — that are served through six program areas — 4-H youth development, agriculture and agribusiness, community and economic development, family and consumer science, integrated health disparities, and natural resources, environment, and energy.