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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and any subsequent amendments, between the City of Long Beach and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the amount of $3,000 for participation in the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Beginning in 1996, and refined by subsequent drafts through 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) developed FDA Program Standards with input from federal, state, and local regulatory officials, industry, trade associations, academia, and consumers to assist in providing uniformity to local health department retail food programs.
These Program Standards serve as a nationwide guide for regulatory retail food program managers in the design and management of retail food regulatory programs, providing recognition for those programs meeting these standards. They reinforce proper sanitation, operational and environmental programs, while encouraging regulatory agencies and industries to focus on the factors that cause food-borne illness.
Funding provided by the FDA will enable the Department of Health and Human Services (Health Department) to participate in a voluntary self-assessment process which will evaluate Health Department food inspection program policies and procedures against FDA program standards and determine where best to allocate limited staff resources to focus on the factors that cause food-borne illness.
This matter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Amy Webber on July 21, 2014 and by Budget Management Officer Victoria Bell on July 25, 2014.
TIMING CONSIDERATIONS
City Council action on this item is not time critical.
FISCAL IMPACT
The City will receive revenues in the amount of $3,000 to offset expenditures of the same amount. Sufficient funds are currently budgeted in the Health Fund (SR 130) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HE). No match or in-kind service mandate is required, an...
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