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Food Premises

Public Health Inspectors routinely conduct inspections at food premises. The Ontario Food Premises Regulation (O. Reg. 493/17) sets out the minimum standards that each food premises must meet.1

 
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What is a Food Premises?

A "food premises" is any location where food or milk is manufactured, processed, prepared, stored, handled, displayed, distributed, transported, sold or offered for sale, but does not include a room actually used as a dwelling in a private residence.2

Examples include: convenience stores, grocery stores, churches, hotdog carts, fast food restaurants, full service restaurants, home-based food premises, fine dining venues, online food sales, food made for donation, steak houses, cafes etc

 

Additional Information

For information about inspections, see Food Safety Inspections and DineSafe.

To speak to a Public Health Inspector on the Environmental Health Team about a food premises, please call:

  • 519-663-5317
 
Date of creation: February 19, 2014
Last modified on: January 25, 2024

References

1Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General. (2017). Health Protection and Promotion Act, R.R.O. 1990, Ontario Regulation 493/17: Food Premises. Retrieved from
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/170493
2Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General. (1990). Health Protection and Promotion Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.7. Retrieved from
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h07