RECOMMENDATION(S):
INTRODUCE Ordinance No. 2016-08, establishing an environmental health color-coded placard program for food facilities, WAIVE reading, and FIX March 15, 2016 for adoption.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The costs to administer the food facility placard program will be covered by existing permit fees. There will be no impact to the county’s general fund, as the Environmental Health Division is fully cost covered by fees.
BACKGROUND:
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are over 47 million food-borne illness outbreaks every year in the United States. And it is estimated that forty percent of the food-borne illness outbreaks are associated with retail food establishments.
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