Woodbridge, NJ Public Health Rules: Food Handler Certification (2026)

Under Woodbridge Code § 35-2.5, every person charged with supervising the operations of a food and/or beverage establishment or mobile unit, plus any other food personnel the Department of Health deems necessary, must successfully complete a Food Safety and Sanitation education program each calendar year. The program must follow the Department's notification instructions and be offered by, or otherwise acceptable and verifiable to, the Department of Health. The section also directs owners, managers and supervisors to make every reasonable effort to get all employees and other food- or beverage-handling staff into the program annually, even those not individually named as the supervising person.

Subsection b gives the Health Officer discretionary authority: when the Health Officer finds it necessary, any person described in Subsection a can be required to attend supplementary Food Safety and Sanitation education beyond the standard annual course. This sits inside § 35-2, the chapter that adopts the Retail Food Establishment Code of New Jersey (1965) and licenses restaurants, mobile units, and retail food establishments in the Township, so the training duty travels with the same license the establishment already holds under § 35-2.3. Enforcement runs through the Division of Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, the same office that reviews and issues Chapter 35 food licenses and can act on training gaps found during a licensing inspection.