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Santa Ana Families Improve the Walking Conditions Around Fremont Elementary School and El Salvador Park The Need: Challenge Within Orange County (OC), Fremont Elementary School falls in the top 10% of schools for bike and pedestrian injuries (Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System). Families have expressed concerns about traffic and personal...

Walking School Bus Program

Did you know that walking to school is one of the easiest ways for students and parents to get daily physical activity?  Plus it’s lots of fun!  A Walking School Bus is an organized group of students that safely walks to school together with adult supervision. Similar to a carpool...

Grievances and Appeals

What is a Grievance? A beneficariy's expressed disstistfaction to the Mental Health Plan (MHP), Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System (DMC-ODS), or any provider about any matter having to do with the provision of Medi-Cal services. The expressed dissatisfaction is defined as a grievance, whether or not it is submitted in...

Top 5 Foodborne Illness Risk Factors

"While the food supply in the United States is one of the safest in the world, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases." www.cdc.gov The top...

About Us

Here you can find a brief description of each of the food safety programs at Environmental Health as well as an introduction to what they do to protect the public from foodborne illness. Restaurants & Markets The goal of the Food Protection Program is to ensure that the food sold...

Immediate Health Hazards

Health Department Closures The primary reason that a health permit is suspended at a retail food facility is due to an immediate health hazard. "If any imminent health hazard is found, unless the hazard is immediately corrected, an enforcement officer may temporarily suspend the permit and order the food facility...

Wholesale

Wholesale food businesses sell products to other businesses and generally do not sell products directly to consumers. The following are examples of the types of food facilities that the wholesale food program regulates: food processing/manufacturing, warehouses, distributors, bakeries, meat processing/packaging, co-packers, bottling (other than water), canning, vending machines, and food...