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Fact Sheets for Operators

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Animals in Restaurants (43.82 KB)
Calibrating a Probe Thermometer (45.58 KB)
Daily Freezer Temperatures Chart (42.47 KB)
Date Marking (91.29 KB)
Double Handwashing (English & Spanish) (142.17 KB)

Emergency Readiness for Food Workers (813.59 KB)
Exposure to Body Fluids (53.13 KB)
Five Keys to Food Safety (Multiple languages) (488.72 KB)
Handling Sushi and Ceviche (47.06 KB)
Handwashing Poster (Multiple languages) (248.66 KB)

Minimum Cooking Temperatures (48.76 KB)
Mobile Unit Playbook (5.7 MB)
Non-continuous Cooking Plan (48.31 KB)
Pest Control Plan (47.53 KB)

Power Outage Emergency Response (38.34 KB)
Proper Vertical Food Storage (268.85 KB)
Priority & Priority Foundation Violations (44.01 KB)
Rat Inspection Guide (1.22 MB)

Sick Employee Exclusion Guidelines (45.03 KB)
Sick Employee Exclusion Guidelines - Chinese (560.02 KB)
Time as a Public Health Control Form - 4 Hours (57.07 KB)
Time as a Public Health Control Form - 6 Hours (57.38 KB)
Wild Mushroom Verification Form (150.52 KB)

Food Defense Toolkit

Food Defense Toolkit (2.26 MB)
Employee Training Handout (106.09 KB)
Incident Report Form (67.85 KB)
Toolkit Evaluation (39.05 KB)
Workplan (48.57 KB)
Contaminated Food Isolation (78.88 KB)
Contamination Outbreak Poster (379.13 KB)
How to Report an Emergency (95.14 KB)
Who's Touching Your Food? Poster (326.46 KB)

We Are Multnomah County: Environmental Health Specialist (video)

Inside a Restaurant Inspection

Tag along with one of our health inspectors and ace your next restaurant inspection.

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Proper Cooling Methods for Foods

Proper Cooling Methods

Three methods for rapidly cooling hot food items.

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Handwashing

Handwashing

How and when to wash your hands if you work in a commercial kitchen or sell food.

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