Food Handler Practice Test (Australia) 2026
Under Standard 3.2.2A of the Food Standards Code, many food businesses must make sure their food handlers are trained or have the right skills and knowledge, and must appoint a certified food safety supervisor. There is no single national exam. This practice covers the law, temperature control, cooling and reheating, hygiene, contamination, cleaning and allergens.
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Godkänt: No single national exam. Food handlers need a food safety training course or adequate skills and knowledge. Food safety supervisors need a certificate from an RTO or a regulator-recognised organisation, obtained within the past 5 years. Ansvarig: Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) writes the Food Standards Code; state and territory food regulators enforce it. Öva gratis här med 60 frågor, alla med svar och förklaring. Kontrollerad mot officiella källor den 11 oktober 2026.
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Svar: C. Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)
FSANZ develops the food safety standards in the Food Standards Code. State and territory food regulators enforce them.
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Svar: D. Standard 3.2.2A Food Safety Management Tools
Standard 3.2.2A sets out three food safety management tools for food service, catering and related retail businesses.
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Svar: C. December 2023
FSANZ says the Standard 3.2.2A requirements came into effect in December 2023.
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Svar: C. Food service, caterers and related retail businesses, such as cafes, restaurants and takeaways
The standard applies to food service, caterer and related retail businesses that handle unpackaged, potentially hazardous, ready-to-eat food.
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Svar: B. Category one
Category one is a caterer or food service business that makes unpackaged potentially hazardous food into ready-to-eat food and serves it.
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Svar: D. A food safety supervisor, trained food handlers, and evidence (records) of key food safety controls
Category one businesses must use all three tools. Category two businesses need a food safety supervisor and trained food handlers.
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Svar: A. The food business
The business must make sure every food handler who handles unpackaged, potentially hazardous, ready-to-eat food is trained or has the right skills and knowledge.
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Svar: B. Before they start handling high-risk unpackaged food
Food handlers must be trained, or have adequate skills and knowledge, before they handle unpackaged, potentially hazardous, ready-to-eat food.
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Svar: C. Safe handling of food, food contamination, cleaning and sanitising, and personal hygiene
These four topics make up a food safety training course under the standard.
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Svar: B. No, but skills and knowledge must stay up to date
No fixed refresher period is set, but the business must keep handlers' skills and knowledge adequate and up to date.
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Svar: C. A certified person who oversees food handling and helps prevent and fix food safety problems
Category one and two businesses must appoint a certified FSS before doing high-risk food handling.
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Svar: B. Obtained within the past 5 years
The FSS certificate must have been obtained within the past 5 years, from an RTO or an organisation recognised by the food regulator.
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Svar: C. They work on site overseeing food handling, or can easily be contacted, for example by phone
FSANZ says reasonably available means the FSS works on site and oversees high-risk food handling, or can be easily contacted.
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Svar: A. Someone involved in the day-to-day food handling at the business
The FSS should oversee food handling and be involved in daily operations. Choosing someone who is never on site is not reasonable.
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Svar: D. Between 5°C and 60°C
Potentially hazardous food should be kept out of the 5°C to 60°C range, often called the temperature danger zone.
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Svar: B. 5°C or colder
Potentially hazardous food must be kept at 5°C or colder, or 60°C or hotter, unless the business can show another temperature is safe.
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Svar: D. 60°C or hotter
Hot potentially hazardous food must be kept at 60°C or hotter.
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Svar: A. Cooked rice
Cooked rice, fresh or cooked pasta, meat, dairy, seafood, eggs and cut fruit are examples of potentially hazardous food.
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Svar: C. Within 2 hours
Stage one of cooling: from 60°C to 21°C in two hours or less.
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Svar: A. 4 hours or less
Stage two of cooling: from 21°C to 5°C in a further four hours or less.
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Svar: D. Split it into smaller portions in shallow containers
Shallow containers, blast chillers, ice baths and stirring with a clean utensil all help food cool quickly.
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Svar: A. Quickly, to 60°C or hotter, before it goes into hot-holding equipment
Reheat quickly to 60°C or hotter using a microwave, oven or stovetop. Do not reheat in hold-only equipment like bain-maries.
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Svar: B. It may heat the food too slowly or not hot enough
Bain-maries and pie warmers are for holding hot food. They may be too slow to reheat food safely.
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Svar: C. Use it, sell it, or put it back in the fridge
Under 2 hours in total, the food can be used, sold or put back in the fridge to use later.
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Svar: A. Use or sell it, but do not put it back in the fridge
Between 2 and 4 hours, the food can still be used or sold, but it cannot go back in the fridge for later.
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Det riktiga provet: No single national exam. Food handlers need a food safety training course or adequate skills and knowledge. Food safety supervisors need a certificate from an RTO or a regulator-recognised organisation, obtained within the past 5 years.
Bra att veta före provet
- Standard 3.2.2A came into effect in December 2023. It covers food service, catering and related retail businesses that handle unpackaged, potentially hazardous, ready-to-eat food.
- Category one businesses need a food safety supervisor, trained food handlers and evidence of key food safety controls. Category two businesses need the first two.
- A food safety training course must cover safe handling of food, food contamination, cleaning and sanitising, and personal hygiene.
- A food safety supervisor's certificate must come from an RTO or an organisation recognised by the food regulator, and must have been obtained within the past 5 years.
- Potentially hazardous food must be kept at 5°C or colder, or 60°C or hotter.
- Cooked potentially hazardous food must cool from 60°C to 21°C within 2 hours, then from 21°C to 5°C within a further 4 hours.
- Food handlers who are sick should return only when a doctor says they are well enough, usually 48 hours after symptoms stop.
Vanliga frågor
Is there an official food handler exam in Australia?
No. Standard 3.2.2A requires food handlers to complete a food safety training course or have adequate skills and knowledge. Courses and their tests are set by the provider, such as an RTO.
What is the difference between a food handler and a food safety supervisor?
A food handler works with food. A food safety supervisor (FSS) is a certified person the business appoints to oversee food handling, train and instruct staff, and fix problems. The FSS certificate must be less than 5 years old.
What is the temperature danger zone in Australia?
Between 5°C and 60°C. Keep potentially hazardous food at 5°C or colder, or 60°C or hotter.
What is the 2-hour/4-hour rule?
It is a guide for ready-to-eat potentially hazardous food out of the fridge. Under 2 hours in total: use, sell or refrigerate. 2 to 4 hours: use or sell but do not refrigerate. Over 4 hours: throw it out.
Do food handlers need to redo training?
FSANZ has not set a fixed refresher period for food handlers, but their skills and knowledge must stay up to date. A food safety supervisor's certificate must have been obtained within the past 5 years.
Källor
- FSANZ: Food safety standards
- FSANZ: Overview of food safety management tools (Standard 3.2.2A)
- FSANZ: Food safety supervisor
- FSANZ: Food handler training
- FSANZ: Keeping food at the right temperature
- FSANZ: Cooling and reheating food
- FSANZ: 2-hour/4-hour rule
- FSANZ: Health and hygiene advice for food handlers
- FSANZ: Cleaning and sanitising
- FSANZ: Thermometers
- FSANZ: Receiving food
- FSANZ: Allergen labelling
- FSANZ: Use-by and best-before dates
- FSANZ: Safe Food Australia