The Department is authorized to investigate and to take such action as may be necessary to control the sale and/or distribution of any food, beverage or other product which is found to:
(a) be contaminated with a pathogenic organism; or
(b) contains chemical substances which are capable of causing acute or chronic disease and which are deemed to be a hazard to the public health; further, the Department is authorized to take all steps necessary to protect the City from any hazard resulting from the presence of any radioactive substance in or near the City or of any dangerous or hazardous substances released into the atmosphere in the City of Chicago or within a mile of the corporate geographic boundaries of the City.
(Prior code § 9-19; Amend Coun. J. 11-9-16, p. 36266, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 2-24-21, p. 27657, Art. I, § 1)
Editor's note – Formerly § 2-112-270. Coun. J. 2-24-21, p. 27657, Art. I, § 1, renumbered former § 2-112-260 as current § 2-112-250.