Food safety training offered

The ServSafe Food Handler Food Safety training course will be offered in two locations in west central Nebraska. The courses will be at:

» Lexington - 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Sept. 12, at the Dawson County Extension Office Meeting Room, Fairgrounds, 1002 Plum Creek Parkway, with registration beginning at 8:15 a.m.

» McCook - 1-5 p.m.Sept. 13, at the Community Building, Fairgrounds, West Fifth and O streets, with registration beginning at 12:45 p.m.

The ServSafe Food Handler program is designed for kitchen employees including but not limited to cooks, dish machine operators, shipment receivers and employees who handle and prepare food in restaurants and other food service establishments. ServSafe Food Handler is the second level of the Nebraska Restaurant Association's Food Safety First Program. The first level is the ServSafe training program for restaurant owners and food service managers.

Extension educators Andrea Nisley and Nancy Frecks will teach the ServSafe Food Handler course sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension. Register by Sept. 1 for the Lexington and McCook sites. Fifteen employees need to be preregistered to be able to offer the course.

For more information, contact the extension offices in Lexington at 308-324-5501 or Trenton at 308-334-5666, or toll free at 800-237-5564.