If a local grocery store is perparing salads and BBQ beef without a permit how does a person report this?

Question

I am worried about cross contamination with the meat department and salad preparations.

Answer 1

In most areas you don't need a permit to prepare these foods unless the beef needed to be cooked. If it is prepared bbq beef that only needs to be reheated a permit is not usually necessary.

Answer 2

Go to the local grocery store first, ask to see their permit for preparing and serving prepared food, you, as a customer has every right to see it. If they have it, tell them they are legally obligated to display it in a prominent location, it says so on the permit. If they can't produce it, check in the phone book, the blue pages for government offices and check for Department of Health, that's the one that does inspections and hands out permits. Turn them in. For those of you that think this is beaurocratic bull crap just about another piece of paper, think again. These permits are not just handed out, the health department checks things like food storage, temperatures, mouse droppings. I, for one, would like to know the food that I am eating was prepared in a sanitary environment and was stored at a proper temperature. Are you even aware that tainted beef, at the very least, can make you extremely ill? Ever hear of E-coli? Salmonella? I have that is why I starred the question, because it's a good one.

Answer 3

Oh brother! Another neurotic health nut. A piece of paper makes the food alright, huh? Oh I know, you stress out at just the thought in your runaway imagination. Nothing anyone can say will change that. You'll obsess about it, certain that the next plague is lurking there and forbidding anyone of your family or anyone else to partake. People like you make eating a battle. Ingredients have to be read, hands washed until the skin comes off (just about), and incessant nagging until you get your own way. It is not that you are bossy with a desire to dominate. No, not at all. You are so WORRIED about what you THINK will happen that your do-good-er mentality makes life inadvertently miserable for people around you. Do the world a favor and marry only someone exactly like you. Now there is not some ethnic prejudice lurking around there, is there? Oh make sure everybody has that official piece of paper. Then you can eat all the germs in bliss. Oh, you say, I never eat in restaurants. Of course you don't. Just remember this. Worry is a piss poor predictor of the future.

Answer 4

Local Board of Health

Answer 5

Enviromental Health

Answer 6

I guess there are a lot of places you could tell. I would start by phoning City Hall. The terms and conditions of their business license would be being exceeded. Then I would contact a Public Health Agency. Try the phone book.