Whereas, the mayor and the city council of the city of East Moline are aware that a potential for foodborne illness exists in the city; that studies of foodborne illness outbreaks have indicated the need for health agencies to direct more attention to the protection of foods which cause foodborne illness; and that it is desirable that state and local health agencies adopt and apply uniform retail food store handling requirements.
Therefore, the city council of the city of East Moline, Illinois, for the purpose of prescribing regulations protecting the public from foodborne disease, hereby adopts certain regulations known as retail food store sanitation regulations, as adopted by the State of Illinois, Department of Public Health, being particularly the 2017 FDA Food Code edition thereof and any future revisions or addenda thereto, of which not less than three (3) copies have been and are now filed in the office of the clerk of the city of East Moline, and the same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the effective date hereof, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the city of East Moline, Illinois.
(Ord. 84-19, 5-7-1984; amd. Ord. 22-01, 3-7-2022)