About Us

A.S.F.T.P.-A School For The People, a company started back in 2001 with a focus on diseminating, training, educating the public on food safety awareness, and the pivotal role that food safety plays in everyones health. A.S.F.T.P. also provides other unique services related to the food industry besides training and certification.

The People

Antonio Barajas-Instructor and Proctor. He is an approved Instructor and Proctor for ServSafe, National Registry Of Food Safety Professionals and Prometric.  He has taught Food Safety for over a decade. Antonio is College educated, has a passion for all things Science, and and Health. A great consultant, who can help you from getting trained, and certified as a State approved food manager, to providing private health inspection audits. He can assist you with an oubreak prevention program; creating a HACCP plan  and how to implement it effectively. He has also traveled nationwide to teach and proctor for large food corporations and food companies.

Fernando Flores-REHS, MS. Fernando has had the pleasure of being a Food and Milk Inspector for Los Angeles County for a decade. He has taught OSHA  at the College level. He is knowledgeable in all things Environmental Health, from food safety to housing safety, to Hazmat.

Mario Tresierras-REHS, MS. Mario like Fernando, has had the pleasure of serving his community, proctecting the public from food borne outbreaks. He also had the pleasure to serve as a Food and Milk inspector for the Los Angeles County Environmental Health Department. Mario also is an expert at all things concerning Environmental Health, from housing environmental hazards to foodborne hazards.

Martha Zavala-BS. A graduate of UC Riverside, in Social Sciences, She assists with customer service, as an interpreter, or representative of our services when the other team members are attending important projects.

As to our other team members and instructors, all are well educated and passionate about their role in preserving the publics health.

A large percentage of our team members are bilingual, fluent in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean.

How Long has ASFTP been around for?
Well, officially, since 2001. Antonio, Fernando and Mario, have been practicing professionals in the food safety, environmental health field before 2001. The company was formalized in 2001.

Where are you LOCATED?.

Many ask us that, when they call. But our location, relative to service is truly not an impediment to helping you, as our programs, such as online, or homestudy, can be taken anywhere in the United States, as long as you have a decent computer and a good Internet Connection.

But obviously if you need a LIVE class, we are limited to where you can attend our courses, these States would be:
CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON DC, NORTHERN VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND ARIZONA.
if its homestudy, we can assist Nationwide. Please click here to see what your State, County, City requirements are regarding a homestudy program for your food manager training and certification.
Our Physical Mailing -Customer Care Address is:
  1765 N. Hollywood Way
Burbank, CA 91505
This is where we work from to assist over the phone with customer care, questions and schedule classes. We Do not conduct live classes, nor consultation services at this location.

Our office for client meetings and consultation is:
1671 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026. We can meet you here only on an appointment basis.

We travel to the customer, and train in different locations that are leased for training purposes. Please see SERVICES page for more information on how you can search and find your closest live class, or test site center.

thank you for taking an interest in finding out who we are.

Attentively,

the ASFTP FOOD SAFETY team