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Dear Farmers’
Market Vendor:
Beginning in 2012, if you are
selling potentially
hazardous foods or unwrapped foods at a farmers’
market in Jefferson County, you must now obtain a Mobile Unit
retail food establishment license. A Mobile Unit is a towed or motorized
wheeled vehicle that reports to and operates from a commissary and is designed
and equipped to serve food.
Exemptions to
obtaining a retail food license include vendors offering the following
products for sale, even if you are offering samples for tasting:
Only
uncut fruit and vegetables
Only
wrapped, non-potentially hazardous foods. For example, pre-packaged bread,
granola, pastries, and potato chips
Sale of the following products will determine
the type of Mobile Unit license
you will require:
Potentially
hazardous foods, you must obtain a $115 Mobile Unit (pre-packaged food) retail
food establishment license. For example, cheese, shell eggs, frozen meats,
pre-packaged burritos, and roasted chilies.
Unwrapped
non-potentially hazardous foods, you must obtain a $255 Mobile Unit retail
food establishment license. For example, unwrapped loaf bread, pastries and
iced coffee.
Potentially
hazardous foods in individual portions for immediate consumption, you must
obtain a $255 Mobile Unit retail food establishment license. For example,
cooked meat (beef, pork,
lamb), poultry
(chicken, turkey, duck), fish, tofu and soy-protein foods, raw
sprouts, cut melon including
watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew,
milk, custard and dairy based desserts, cooked pasta and potatoes, heat-treated
plant food (cooked rice, beans, or vegetables) and
cooked eggs.
Please contact Jessa Woodward at
303.271.5761 to schedule a plan review at least 21 days before your first day
of operation. For more information please visit our website atwww.jeffco.us/health.
Thank you,
Jessa Woodward, MPH, CHES, CP-FS
Jefferson County Public Health
Environmental Health Specialist
1801 19th Street
Golden, CO 80401
303.271.5761 (office)
303.271.5760 (fax)
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