Food and Lodging
The Appalachian District's Food and Lodging Sanitation Program is a component of the North Carolina Division of Environmental Health. This program is administered by the local Health Departments and mandated pursuant to Chapter 130A of the General Statutes of North Carolina. Environmental Health Specialists in this program are responsible for enforcing state statutes and rules, and local ordinances governing a number of different types of facilities:
- Restaurants
- Food Stands
- Meat Markets
- Nursing/Rest Homes
- Concession Stands
- Festivals
- School Cafeterias
- School Buildings
- Lodging Facilities
- Residential Care Homes
- Adult Day Cares
- Local Confinement (Jails)
- Bed & Breakfast Homes
- Bed & Breakfast Inns
- Hospitals
- Resident and Primitive Camps
- Mobile Food Units & Pushcarts
The purpose of the Food and Lodging Sanitation Program is to ensure the public of safe food and clean facilities through planning and permitting of new and existing establishments, and continuous education of employees.
Please click on the links above for more information on the Food and Lodging Sanitation Program.