The goal of the food program is to ensure that the food sold and served in the City of Long Beach is safe, wholesome, properly labeled and advertised, and produced under sanitary conditions. Food facilities inspected include: Restaurants, Markets, Bakeries, Bars, Hospital Cafeterias, Commissaries, Mobile Food Preparation Vehicles, Packaged Food Trucks, Food Carts, Food Warehouses, Food Salvagers, Food Processors

The Food Inspection Program:

• enforces state and local food safety regulations in over 2,000 food facilities in the city
• reviews plans and performs construction progress inspections on all new or remodeled food facilities
• licenses and inspects mobile food facilities (carts) and mobile food preparation units (hot trucks)
• regulates food operators at outdoor special events
• licenses and inspects laundries, health spas, massage establishments, and tanning salons
• focuses on the education of food handlers and food operators
• stresses prevention of foodborne illness during routine inspections