The Director of Public Health, and authorized employees who are registered sanitarians or sanitarians- in-training, are charged with the enforcement of this chapter. Any such person shall have the right to enter and inspect any place where the business of food is engaged in. No person shall refuse or hinder inspection, or fail to answer all reasonable questions relative to handling food or fail to furnish, upon request, any records deemed necessary for the enforcement of this chapter. If the Director of Public Health and/or authorized employees find, or have cause to believe, that within a retail food establishment or food service operation in their jurisdiction food is adulterated, or so misbranded as to be dangerous or fraudulent, said food may be embargoed in accordance with OAC 901: 3-4-15, 3701-21-27 and may be taken for examination, free of charge. Whenever the Director of Public Health and/or authorized employees find in any food shop, any meat, seafood, poultry, vegetable, fruit, or other perishable foods that are unsound, or contain any filthy, decomposed, or putrid substance, or that may be poisonous or deleterious to health or otherwise unsafe, the foods are declared to be a nuisance, and shall forthwith be condemned or destroyed, or in any other manner rendering the items unsalable as human food. The Director of Capital Projects shall have concurrent authority to enforce the provisions of this chapter not specifically delegated to the Director of Public Health.
(Ord. No. 507-15. Passed 7-22-15, eff. 7-27-15)