Target Group

A Hygiene Passport is required for many jobs in the food industry. You must have a Hygiene Passport if you work in a food establishment and handle unpackaged, perishable food.

You can obtain a it by passing the Finnish Food Authority’s hygiene passport test. The certificate must be obtained within three months of starting work in a food establishment.

Training objective and content

The training includes the Finnish Food Authority’s Hygiene Passport test.

Learn more about the Hygiene Passport on the Finnish Food Authority’s website.

The test alone is also available in English.

Identity verification

• Finnish driver’s license and moped license, Finnish passport, Finnish ID card, Finnish photo ID card
• Foreign ID card, foreign passport
• For information on other acceptable forms of identification, please contact the test supervisor at least one week before the test date.

For more information about the training

*also if you have lost your Hygiene Passport (issued by OSAO)

Heli Haapalainen, tel. 044 703 7898, heli.haapalainen@osao.fi