Food handler practice tests
Private practice site. Chapbook is not a government agency and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any department of motor vehicles, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or any state or county agency. These are practice tests written by us to help you study. They are not the official test, and passing here does not give you a licence, a permit, a card, or a certificate of any kind.
Practice only. This does not give you a food handler card, and it is not a certificate or a certification. Each state or county accepts cards only from approved providers. The official routes for the launch states and counties are named in the section below, with links where an official list sits online, and every state or county page in this section carries the official route link for that place on the page itself.
Facts about the real tests
- Statewide regimes in the plan
- CA, TX, IL, OR, WA, FL, UT
- County programmes
- 5 counties with their own rules
- Bank per regime
- Banks are written at 110 to 140 questions per regime and ship only after two checks
- The card itself
- Only from an approved provider, never from us
Rules differ by state and by county. In California and Illinois the approved route runs through providers accredited under the ANSI and ASTM E2659 programme. In Texas it is a programme licensed by the Department of State Health Services. Checked 2026-11-03.
The official route to the real card
Practice here never leads to a card. When you're ready for the real one, the route depends on where you work:
Washington: the only authorised online route is the state portal, foodworkercard.wa.gov. Local health departments run the training and test too.
Texas: use a programme licensed by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Its list sits at the department's accredited food handler training programmes page.
Oregon: use a provider on the Oregon Health Authority's approved provider list, at the authority's food handler certification page.
California and Illinois: use a provider accredited under the ANSI and ASTM E2659 programme. In California, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties run their own programmes instead, and Maricopa County in Arizona and Clark County in Nevada are county programmes too. The state and county pages in this section name their route and carry its link, because a card from the wrong route isn't valid where you work.
The fee trap, named plainly
Search results in this field often show a low headline price that grows once fees are added at checkout. Our practice is free. When you are ready for the real card, use the official provider list for your state or county, and check the total price before you pay anyone.
Where this section stands
No food handler test is live yet. This section arrives in a later wave, after citizenship and the first four car states. Each state and county bank is written from that place's food rules, every question ships only after two independent checks, and every page in the section carries the practice only notice and the official route to the real card for that place.
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