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Food Facility Inspection Information online!
Visit our
Food
Inspection Search Page
to search for restaurant
and other food facility inspection results,
and to view the actual inspection report online
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Award
of Excellence in Food Safety Recipients
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The Sacramento County Food
Protection Program, part of the Environmental
Health (EH) Division of the Environmental Management
Department, is responsible for the enforcement of
State and Local health codes at all retail food
facilities in Sacramento County (including all
incorporated cities.) The enforcement of these codes
is conducted through the following activities:
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Permitting and inspection of retail food
businesses including restaurants, bars, markets,
school cafeterias, bakeries, mini-marts and
convenience stores, mobile food vendors, and
special/temporary event booths.
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Providing food safety education and training to
improve compliance with food safety regulations
and reduce the incidence of foodborne illness.
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Investigation of complaints regarding food safety
and sanitation violations at retail food
facilities
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Investigation of suspected cases of foodborne
illness.
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A new group of Food Protection Program Enhancements was
approved by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors in May 2006, that will
go into effect on January 1, 2007. The most noticeable change will be the
requirement that retail food facilities display at their entrance or other
prominent location a placard that shows the results of their most recent
inspection. The placards will be green (for 'pass'), yellow (for
'conditional pass') or red (for 'closed').
Other enhancements include more frequent food inspections for potentially
higher-risk retail food facilities. Generally these are facilities that do their
own food preparation, rather than just selling pre-packaged food. The
Environmental Health Division will also be conducting educational
workshops for Retail Food Facility operators to assist with compliance
issues.
For more details please visit the
EMD Food Program Enhancements page.
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To assist retail food facilities with meeting the
food protection program requirements EMD has prepared a
Prioritized Inspection Frequency Compliance
Assistance Bulletin 
which answers many common questions about the
existing requirements.
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Retail food facilities in Sacramento County are
currently required to post the most recent
inspection report in a place visible and
readable by the public.
The food facility inspection report must be posted
in its entirety (some reports have multiple
pages) in an obvious location clearly visible
and readable to the public, near the entrance or
at the service counter.
To assist retail food facilities with this
inspection report posting requirement,
EMD has prepared a
Food Facility Inspection Report Onsite Posting
Compliance Bulletin
which describes the details for posting
inspection reports onsite and answers many
common questions about the requirements.
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EMD has also increased the
availability of food facility inspection
information by making the inspection results and
the reports themselves available on EMD's
Food Inspection Search page,
www.foodinspect.saccounty.net. The inspection
reports available here - in Adobe Acrobat
format- are the same ones that should be posted
at each facility.
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Increasing compliance through education by
requiring that food handlers at non-compliant
food facilities attend a Food
Safety Education (FSE) class. The food
safety classes are conducted as demand
requires. The cost is $20.00 per person.
Please call 916-875-1715 to enroll in the
class or to receive the current class schedule,
or visit the Food
Safety Education page.
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To assist retail food facilities with
understanding the conditions under which the FSE
may be required, EMD has prepared a
Food Safety Education Compliance Assistance
Bulletin which answers many common questions
about this new requirement. (The document is in
Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.)
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EMD is also increasing compliance through progressive
enforcement of repeat non-compliant food
operators.
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EMD has instituted an
Award
of Excellence in Food Safety program
where food facilities that have shown a pattern
of excellent compliance over a period of time
will receive a certificate suitable for posting
indicating the high level of compliance
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EMD publishes a list of recent
Retail Food
Facility Closures, which is updated weekly.
For additional information or if
you have comments about the Food Protection Program
or the Food Inspections online please contact EMD at
the address below:
Sacramento County Environmental
Management Department
Environmental Health Division
8475 Jackson Road, Suite 240
Sacramento, CA 95826-3904
916-875-8440
foodprogram@saccounty.net
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