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Food service education and inspection ensures safe and healthy restaurant meals |
A food establishment is any business that sells food or beverages:
- Bars and taverns
- Convenience food markets
- Delicatessens
- Espresso carts
- Grocery stores
- Bakeries
- Mobile food trucks
- Restaurants
- Schools or cafeterias
- Special events:
- Community festivals
- County Fair
- Farmers' markets
- Summer league baseball games
- Etc.
Food Safety unit:
- Assures, promotes and instills proper food handling procedures and environment in food establishments, through regular inspections, enforcement of state and local regulations and policies and licensing
- Investigates food-related complaints and food-borne illnesses
- Educates, tests and licenses food workers
- Consults to food establishment management
- Reviews new food establishment construction plans
- Approves all new food service equipment
To report foodborne illness
If you become ill and suspect the source to be food that you ate or bought at a local food establishment, you may report the illness and file a complaint. Please contact Clark County Environmental Public Health division at (360) 397-8083.
Sunny days, safe meals
Food safety guidelines for summer picnics (PDF- 20K)
Food safety in times of disaster
Fact sheets to assure safe sources of food and waterin flood, earthquake or other disaster situations creating power outage and/or contaminated consumables:
- Keep Food Safe During Power Outages (PDF - 385K)
- Handling Flood-Damaged Foods (PDF - 385K)
- Safe Drinking Water After a Disaster (PDF - 17K)
- Emergency Water Supply Guidelines (for food service establishments) (PDF - 35K)
- Cleaning Tips After a Flood (PDF - 18K)
