Retail Food Service Plan Reviews
In
Boulder County, there are over 1,200 "permitted" permanent food
establishments, including restaurants, food and espresso carts, coffee
shops, delis, and the fresh food sections of grocery stores. Each of these
establishments is inspected to assess compliance with the Colorado Retail
Food Code.
This includes both mobile and
retail food
establishments.
Mobile Food Establishment
Mobile Food
Establishment, as defined by the State of Colorado means a
retail food establishment that reports to and operates from a commissary and is readily
moveable; is a motorized wheeled vehicle; or a towed, wheeled vehicle designed and equipped
to serve food.
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Retail Food Establishment
Retail Food Establishment means a retail operation that stores,
prepares, or packages food for human consumption or serves or otherwise provides food for
human consumption to consumers directly or indirectly through a delivery service, whether
such food is consumed on or off the premises or whether there is a charge for such food.
Retail Food Establishment does not mean:
- Any private home.
- Private boarding houses.
- Hospital and health facility patient feeding operations licensed
by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
- Child care centers and other child care facilities licensed by the Department of Human
Services.
- Hunting camps and other outdoor recreation locations where food is prepared in the field
rather than at a fixed base of operation.
- Food or beverage wholesale manufacturing, processing, or packaging plants, or portions
thereof, that are subject to regulatory controls under state or federal laws or
regulations.
- Motor vehicles used only for the transport of food.
- Establishments preparing and serving only hot coffee, hot tea, instant hot beverages,
and non-potentially hazardous doughnuts or pastries obtained from sources complying with
all laws related to food and food labeling.
- Establishments that handle only non-potentially hazardous prepackaged food and operations
serving only commercially prepared, prepackaged foods requiring no preparation other than
the heating of food within its original container or package.
- Farmers markets and roadside markets that offer only uncut fresh fruit and vegetables
for sale.
- Automated food merchandising enterprises that supply only prepackaged, non-potentially
hazardous food or drink, or food or drink in bottles, cans, or cartons only, and
operations that dispense only chewing gum or salted nuts in their natural protective
covering.
- The donation, preparation, sale, or service of food by a nonprofit or charitable
organization in conjunction with an event or celebration if such donation, preparation,
sale, or service of food:
- Does not exceed the duration of the event or celebration or a maximum of fifty-two days
within a calendar year.
- Takes place in the county in which such nonprofit or charitable organization resides or
is principally located.
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