Before you start working in the food sector for the first time, you need to receive training and a certificate in accordance with Section 43, Paragraph 1 of the Infection Protection Act.

The following groups of people require this instruction:

Persons who work in kitchens of bars, restaurants, canteens, cafés or other establishments with or for communal catering, such as hospitals, day-care centres, schools or nursing homes:

⦿ Meat, poultry and products thereof
⦿ Milk and milk-based products
⦿ Fish, crustaceans or molluscs and products thereof
⦿ Egg products
⦿ Infant and toddler food
⦿ Ice cream and ice cream semi-finished products
⦿ Baked goods with unbaked or heated filling or topping
⦿ Delicatessen, raw vegetable and potato salads, marinades, mayonnaises, other emulsified sauces, nutritional yeasts
⦿ Sprouts and seedlings for raw consumption and seeds for the production of sprouts and seedlings for raw consumption

and come into contact with them directly (by hand) or indirectly (via objects such as crockery, cutlery and other work materials).

or:

Persons who work in kitchens of bars, restaurants, canteens, cafés or other establishments providing or providing communal catering.