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The Ontario Food Premise Regulation under the Health Protection and Promotion Act outlines the food safety requirements for mobile food premises. All mobile food premises are required to be inspected...Read more
Download this Smart Start package as a printable PDF Getting Started Congratulations on your business plans. This package lists the steps you must follow to get Public Health approval for your...Read more
Public Health inspects food premises to ensure compliance with the Ontario Food Premises Regulation 493/17 . These include restaurants, mobile food vendors, institutions that serve food (e.g., child...Read more
To keep the community healthy, Public Health inspects places that prepare, sell or distribute food to the public. Our inspections ensure that businesses comply with the Ontario Food Premises...Read more
Handling food safely is important to help reduce the risk of becoming sick after eating and drinking. Anyone who prepares food can benefit from food safety training. As of July 1, 2018, the Ontario...Read more
Have your friends ever said you should bottle your famous garden-fresh salsa and sell it at the farmers’ market? Or perhaps you’ve seen cupcakes for sale on social media and wondered if they were...Read more
Public Health inspects food vendors at farmers’ markets. This page has information for farmers’ market organizers and vendors. Farmers’ Market Organizers Farmers’ market organizers have the...Read more
Public Health inspects businesses that: Prepare, sell or distribute food to the public Offer a personal service to the public (such as hair, aesthetics, piercing, tattooing) Operate a licensed child...Read more
The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has issued new regulations, codes, and short-form wording (set fines) for businesses operating in Ontario that come into effect July 1, 2018. These...Read more
Visit Check Before You Choose Public Health is responsible for inspecting food establishments, hair salons, spas, tattoo studios, and recreational water facilities (including public pools, public...Read more
Submit an infection control complaint online. This page contains reports where an infection control lapse was found for personal service settings (e.g. nail salons, tattoo/piercing studios) and...Read more
Public health inspectors visit restaurants and other food premises to make sure they’re following safe food handling and storage practices. You may know about the work of inspectors through the media...Read more
Imagine - It’s Valentine’s Day and you’ve been planning a romantic evening for you and your loved one. The evening includes a romantic dinner at that fancy new restaurant in town – the one all your...Read more
Public Health inspects vendors at special events who provide food and beverages to the public, and non-regulated health professionals who offer a personal service to the public (including tattooing,...Read more
Your guide to becoming a breastfeeding friendly place Why Welcome Breastfeeding? Workplaces must support breastfeeding employees to stay in compliance with the law. The Ontario Human Rights...Read more