Food Safety & Licenses in Meigs County, OH

There are four types of food license available: (click on license type to view or print)

1. Mobile Planning Packet– Food trucks, knock down units and other mobile vendors
2. New Food License Planning Packet – This is the standard food license, used for restaurants, grocery stores, any permanent structure selling food.
3. Temporary Food License Planning Packet– Good for one event lasting 5 days or less.
4. Vending Planning Packet– This is the plan review document to set a vending machine that will dispense perishable foods.

The following documents are required:

1. Employee Responsibility – All employees must sign!
2. Choking Poster
3. Employees Must Wash Hands Poster – Must be displayed at each hand wash sink!

The following is general food service information:

1. Risk Level
2. Rules Review

Meigs County Health Department Does NOT Offer Food Handler or Food Protection Manager Classes at This Time

New rules from Ohio Department of Health have said it is now OK to take the Certified Food Protection Manager or CFPM (Level 2) course work and exam online from ServSafe. If a course and exam is taken online, then an application for the Manager Certification in Food Protection must be submitted to the Ohio Department of Health. 

You can go to the ServSafe website at https://www.servsafe.com/ and take the online course work for the CFPM (Level 2) course under the ‘ServSafe Manager’ tab or the Food Handler (Level 1) course under the ‘ServSafe Food Handler’ tab. 

There are other in-person courses held in surrounding counties. To see a list of approved providers of the food safety courses in Ohio, visit the following link: http://www.healthspace.com/Clients/Ohio/Ohio_Website_Live.nsf/FoodCertifications.xsp

For more information on any of the Food Safety Classes, or test proctoring, contact Elizabeth Fisher at 740-992-6626 or at elizabeth.fisher@meigs-health.com.

1. Emergency Food Policy
2. Enforcement Policy
3. Equipment Policy
4. Inspection Policy

Please Print, Complete and Return to:

Meigs County Health Dept., 112 East Memorial Drive, Ste. A, Pomeroy OH 45769

• Food Complaint Form

Below are Free Food Safety Posters for Your Use:

• Refrigerator safety
• Bare Hand Contact
• Employees Must Wash Hands  – Required by law
• First-aid For Choking – Required by law
• Hand Sink Only
• Keep Hot USDA
• Employee Responsibility Waiver – Have each employee sign a copy, keep in employee file. Required by law.
• Fecal/Vomit Clean-up Procedures – Required by law
• Daily Cleaning List
• Weekly Cleaning List
• Monthly Cleaning List
• Side-work List
• Temperatures

1. Food Safety Fact Sheets-Ohio Dept. of Health
2. Food Recalls – Ohio Dept. of Agriculture
3. Food Safety – Ohio Dept. of Health
4. Ohio Uniform Food Safety Code
5. Cottage Food
6. Home Bakery
7. Egg Laws
8. Grease Trap Service Providers
9. Commissary Agreement
10. Food Service Fee Schedule

FDA Link (click)

Food Safety Video (click)

*Food Facts-Power Outage (click for pdf copy)

*Food Facts-Power Outage (click for word copy)

*Recommendations for flooding in a food service operation (click for pdf copy) 

*Recommendations for flooding in a food service operation (click for word copy)

*Restaurant_Reopening_After_Flood (click for pdf copy)
*Restaurant_Reopening_After_Flood (click for word copy)