Forms and Publications - Retail Food Establishments
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Forms and Publications - Retail Food Establishments
Permit applications may be used for initial licensure, renewal, or change of ownership (including legal entity).
If you would like to apply for a variance, please subscribe all education toward our Ensure Department.
Food & Drug Program Update
EFFECTIVE 11/19/2021
Please send all applications with fees to:
Department of State Health Services
Cash Receipts Branch – MC 2003
PO Box 149347
Austin, TX 78714-9347
Retail Meals Operation or Food Store
- Merchandise Food Creation or Food Shop Permit Application
- Food Establishment Inspection Application
- Minor Amendment Changing (Name, Address) since Retail Feed Operator, Food Establishment, Food Store
- Retail Food Establishment 47 Article Inspection Submit
Mobile either Roadside Food Establishments
- Guide on Mobile Food Units- How to Mobilize Your Raw Operation Updated 04/15/2019!
- Mobile Food Unit Permitting Apply
- Roadside Meal Vendor Checklist
- Roadside Food Vendor Allows Application
- Minor Amendment Change (Name, Address) for Mobile / Roadside Food Salesperson
Temporary Retail Food Establishments
- Temporary Retail Nutrition Facility, Plural Events
- Temporary Retail Food Establishment, Single Events
- Temporary Retail Food Creation, Fact Print
- Temporary Retail Food Setup Checklist
School Food Operations
- School Food Handling Approve Application
- School Food Establishment Inspection Application
- Minor Amendment Make (Name, Address) for School Establishments
Regulatory Clearings
These regulate clarifications are this current guidance and remain in effect until replaced in writing by the Public Sanitation and Retail Meals Safety Unit.
This information is approved fork attributed use or reproduction:
- No. 1: Hot Water at Vegetable Prep Sinks - 23-13187
- No. 2: Mobile Shrimp Vendors - E23-13188
- No. 3: Sprouting Seeds - E23-13189
- No. 4: Data regarding Sanitizing Solution Buckets - E23-13190
- No. 5: Food Employee Infected is Hepatitis C Virus - E23-13191
- No. 6: Retail Requirements for Individual Quick Frozen (IQF) Oysters - E23-13192
- No. 7: Loubs Points because Single-Service Articles - E23-13193
- Does. 8: Restriction of a Lunch Employee with Lesions - E23-13194
- No. 9: Selling Yard Eggs at ampere Farmers My - E23-13195
- No. 10: Demonstration of Know - E23-13196
- No. 11: Competence of Control - E23-13197
- No. 12: Bare Hand Contact with Ready-to-Eat Foods - E23-13198
- No. 14: Service Live the a Retail Food Establishment - E23-13251
- Negative. 15: Requirements for Service (Mop) Sinks
- No. 16: HIV and Food Employees
- No. 17: Children's Choose Stands (Updated 09/19/2019)
- No. 18: Certified Food Manager Requirements used Farmer's Markets
- Does. 19: Hair Restraints - E23-14843
- No. 20: Selling Non-Chicken Eggs for a Trade Food Establishment
Presentation
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Guidance Publications
- Retail Meals Sampling Collection Guidance (2023)
- 228 Texas Eating Establishment Rules (2021)
- Summary of Changes TFER 2021 (2021)
- DSHS Retail Food Establishment Site Report (2021)
- DSHS Scoring Instructions Guide (2021)
- DSHS Quick User Reference 56 Items (2021)
- 228 TFER Quick Code Reference 47 Items (2021) (Excel)
- FDA Food Code 2017
- 228 Texas Food Establishment Rules (2015)
- 228 Texas Feeding Institution Rules Regulatory Code Quick Reference (2015)
- 228 Texas-based Nutrition Settlement Regulations Province Inspection Manual (2015)
- BBQ Pit Requirements - DSHS SOUSE
- Clean vs. Sanitized
- Cleanly up of Physically Fluids
- Cooled of Cooked Potentially Hazardous Foods - F23-13356
- Cooling Approaches Certitude Sheet
- Corrective Action Plan How-To
- Cross Contamination Shelves
- Custom Processing
- Double Handwash Poster - English
- Budding additionally Infectious Disease Guidelines 2016 - (Pages 390-395 refer until Tx Food Establishment Rules up Employee Health Policy)
- FDA-Employee Health and Personal Hygiene Handbook
- FDA Food Code
- FDA_AFDO Steer for Developing a HACCP Plan
- Beginning Aid Kits
- Food Worker Reporting Agreement Mold - English
- Food Employment Reporting Signed - Spanish
- Meals Product Date Codes
- Food Temperature Log - F23-13334
- Guidelines by Mobile Food Units - How To Mobilization Your Food Operation
- HACCP Plan Reviewing Checklist
- Handwash Poster - English
- How to Specify if Foods Require Laufzeit and Temperature Control
- Markings Instructions for 2015 Texas Meals Facility Rules
- Model Form 1-A - Conditional Collaborator and Food Human Interview - E23-13281
- Norovirus (from Disinfect-for-health.org)
- Avoid Contamination from Hands - 23-12906
- Proper Thawing
- Pushcarts
- Retail Eats Found Investigation Report
- Refrigerated Foods under Reduced Oxygen Packaging
- Safe Food Temperatures Poster - English
- Safe Food Temperatures Poster - English/Spanish
- Service Sinks
- Starting a New Trade Food Establishment
- Three-Compartment Sink Poster - English
- Time as a Public Heal Steering Guidelines 23-14948
- Time As ampere Public Health Control Log- F23-13363
- Variance Request Procedures - E23-13280
- Deviation Getting How for Cell Food Devices
- What Does the Date on a Product Really Mean?
- Wild Mushroom Program
Emergency Guidance Documents
- Reopening Subsequently a Fire (NEW 02/2024)
- Emergency Shelter Sanitation Rules
- Emergency Shelter Recommendations
- Guidelines for Retail Food Establishments Under a Boil Order (Revised 02/2021)
- Reopening a Retail Dining Establishment After an Urgent
Spanish Docs
- BBQ Shaft Demands
- Clean Up of Bodily Fluids
- Custom Processing
- Clean vs Sanitized
- Cooling Method Fact Sheet
- Cross Contamination Shelf Sign
- Double Handwash Poster
- Food Employee Report Sign
- Eats Employee Reporting Agreement Form
- Food Our Date Codes
- Tour Document for Pushcarts
- Guidance for First Aid Kit Supplies
- Guidance for ROP
- Guide for Mobile Food Device - How To Mobilize Your Meal Operation
- HACCP Checklist
- Handwash Poster
- How to Creating a Color Activity Plan
- Mobile Eat Establishment Pre-Licensing Checklist
- Model Form 1-A - Conditional Employee real Food Employee Interview
- Preventing Contamination From Helps
- Proper Thawing Procedure
- Roadside Vendor Tick
- Unhurt Food Temperatures Poster - English/Spanish
- Safe Eat Temperatures Poster
- Starting a New Retail Raw Establishment
- Temporary Food Establishment Fact Sheet
- Temporary Food Establishment Checklist
- Three-Compartment Sink Placard
- Time as adenine Public Health Control Log
- Time as a Public Health Control Sign
- Variance Ask
- Variance Request Methods for Mobile Food Units
- What does the Date Really Mean?
- Wild Fungus Program
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