The
Environmental Health Division of the Barry-Eaton District Health Department has
the regulatory authority to impose administrative and judicial actions as
necessary on non-compliant food service establishments to gain compliance with
the statutory requirements of the Michigan Food Law of 2000.
Office
conferences are normally conducted with the person-in-charge (owner or manager)
when critical violations (violations that pose an increased risk for a foodborne
illness to occur) are found not corrected at the time of a follow-up inspection.
Informal
hearings are often of a more serious nature, where there are either numerous
critical and/or non-critical violations, a repeat history of critical or chronic
problems within the facility, or an environmental health hazard in need of
prompt attention.
Formal
hearings are public proceedings in which the food service operator and the
Environmental Health Division both present evidence to a hearing board regarding
the situation at hand. The hearing board's decision may result in license
suspension, limitation, revocation, or full reinstatement.
A
food service establishment can be immediately ordered to cease from operating if
it is found that continued operation would create an imminent or substantial
hazard to the public's health.
Once a license is suspended, it shall remain suspended until either the
conditions responsible for the order to cease operations no longer exist, or a
hearing determines that the suspension order is no longer justified.
A food service establishment can be immediately ordered to limit its scope of operations to protect the public's health. License limitations may be imposed based upon problems with any of the following: the site, facility, sewage disposal system, equipment, and water supply; the food supplies, protection, storage, preparation, display, and service; the menu, employee health, hygiene, and food service practices. License limitations shall remain in effect until the hazardous conditions no longer exist or the hearing board or regulatory authority determines that the limitation order is no longer necessary.
Any food offered for sale or consumption that is believed to
be adulterated, beyond the date of consumption, or otherwise determined to be
dangerous to the public's health may be seized, held from use, or ordered
destroyed by the Environmental Health Division.
When subject to plan review, a stop work order may be imposed upon a construction project until a review of the project has been completed and approved by the Environmental Health Division.
