Food may be examined or sampled by the Cook County Department of Public Health as often as necessary for enforcement of this chapter. The Cook County Department of Public Health may, upon written notice to the owner or person in charge, specifying with particularity the reasons therefor, place a hold order on any food which it believes is in violation of Section 750.100, 750.110, 760.100 or 760.110 of the Illinois Department of Public Health's publications currently titled Food Service Sanitation Rules and Regulations and Retail Food Store Sanitation Rules and Regulations, respectively, or any other provision of this chapter. The Cook County Department of Public Health shall tag, label or otherwise identify any food subject to a hold order. No food subject to a hold order shall be used, served or moved from the establishment. The Cook County Department of Public Health shall permit storage of the food under conditions specified in the hold order, unless storage is not possible without risk to the public health, in which case immediate destruction shall be ordered and accomplished. The hold order shall state that a request for a hearing may be filed within ten days and that if no hearing is requested the food shall be destroyed. If a request for a hearing is received, the hearing shall be held within twenty days after receipt of the request. On the basis of evidence produced at that hearing, the hold order may be vacated, or the owner or person in charge of the food may be directed by written order to denature or destroy such food or to bring it into compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 791. Passed 8-23-93.)