City and County of San Francisco

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

POPULATION HEALTH DIVISION

Food Safety Program

Stephanie Cushing

Director,

Environmental

Health

Patrick Fosdahl

Assistant Director,

Environmental

Health

Lisa O’Malley

Principal

Environmental

Health Inspector

Mary Freschet

Principal

Environmental

Health Inspector

Terrence Hong

Principal

Environmental

Health Inspector

San Francisco Health Commission Community & Public Health Committee

June 18th, 2019

101 Grove Street, Room 302

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Overview of the Population Health Division

A SAMPLE OF WHAT WE DO IN

THE FOOD SAFETY PROGRAM

Plan Check

Permitting of Food Facilities

RoutineInspections

Complaint & Food borne

Illness Investigations

Onsite Classroom

Education to assist Food

Facilities

Community Outreach

Environmental Health protects public health throughits multi-faceted regulatory roles

This program ensures that all retail food isstored, prepared and served to the public ina safe manner.

• 8,000 Permitted Retail Food Facilities in San Francisco

• Restaurants, Schools, Take-Out, Fast Food, Mobile FoodTrucks, Certified Farmers Markets, Bars, Markets,Bakeries, Temporary Event (Street Fairs), SportingEvents, Cottage Food Facilities, Caterers, Summer LunchProgram

• Conducts plan check reviews to ensure that structuraland equipment installations are code compliant

• Number of Staff: 44• Budget: $9 Million

Food

Safety

Program

Our Role In Public Health

• Unannounced risk based inspections

What we look for during an inspection• Poor personal hygiene• Food from unsafe sources• Inadequate cooking temperatures• Improper holding temperatures• Contaminated equipment/cross contamination• Vermin Infestation• Lack of hot running water• Improper rapid cooling of food

Education• Providing onsite training to ensure long term success• Demonstrating and teaching safe food handling procedures• Providing classroom food safety certification courses • Availing staff’s multilingual skills

Regulatory Duties• Inspection/re inspection reports issued• Address public complaints and foodborne illnesses• Temporarily suspend permits for imminent risk(s)• Abatement Conference Hearings• Director of Public Health Hearing

CHALLENGES

Improper food handling Illegal installation of grease trap

Rodent entry point Sewage contamination

Transformations

Before After

Community Outreach and Education

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Online Food Permit Application

• First in the State• Award Winning• Future is Now

Public Notification• Scoring System was adopted in 2004• High Risk Violation 7 point deduction• Moderate Risk Violation 4 point deduction• Low Risk Violation 2 Point deduction

• Public posting of current Inspection Report• Score Card

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