IDDBA Food Safety Certification
Reimbursement Information

(IDDBA Retail Members Only)

To promote food safety certification for members, the International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association (IDDBA) has developed the Food Safety Certification Reimbursement Program. This IDDBA program will reimburse IDDBA retail members for their cost for food safety certification exams. Eligible employees are supermarket dairy, deli, and bakery managers and associates at store-level who successfully complete a certification exam. The scholarship and reimbursement funds are allocated on an annual basis (July-June Fiscal Year). Each store group is capped at a maximum reimbursement of $2,000 per fiscal year. Available dollars are pro-rated among eligible applicants. Once the fund has been depleted, there will be no additional reimbursements made during that fiscal year. Reimbursement will be in the form of a check to the IDDBA member.

PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY

Food safety certification exams from the following organizations:

Prometric, www.prometric.com/foodsafety/CPFM.htm (Certified Professional Food Manager)

National Registry of Food Safety Professionals, www.nrfsp.com (Food Safety Manager Certification or FMI-SuperSafeMark®)

National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, www.nraef.org (ServSafe® Food Protection Manager Certification)

EMPLOYEE ELIGIBILITY

Only current IDDBA-member retail companies are eligible. To verify your company's membership, check if your company appears in the list of current IDDBA members.

Within the company, only store-level dairy, deli, or bakery department managers or associates are eligible for certification reimbursement.

REIMBURSEMENT

Amount: 

100% of the retailer's cost for eligible food safety certification exams per certified employee, at a maximum limit of the testing company's published cost of the exam.

• Each store group is capped at a maximum reimbursement of $2,000 per fiscal year.
• Expenses not included are training, materials, labor hours, meals, travel, in-store trainer salaries, etc., nor do we cover recertification.
• Reimbursement will be distributed proportionally among eligible applicants.

Required:

• Copy of invoice for payment of exam for each employee.
• Copy of certification certificate awarded to each employee or pass list on testing company letterhead.
• Name, store address, and home address for each certified employee. You must include the specific store name and title for each employee.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

APPLICATIONS

IDDBA reserves the right to determine what costs will be reimbursed and to what extent.

Click here to apply online or to view or print the Food Safety Certification Reimbursement Application.

Or, call or write for an application:

Karen Peckham
IDDBA
P.O. Box 5528
Madison WI 53705-0528
phone: 608.310.5000
E-mail: kpeckham@iddba.org

IDDBA's financial support of the training and certification process does not imply endorsement or guarantee of the training, materials, and/or performance of anyone trained using these programs.

Also, check out our Industry Related Links for more Scholarship and Education sites.

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