Harrison County adopts updated retail food code ordinance

Jun 16, 2025

County health administrator Jennifer Caffrey told commissioners the ordinance updates local categories to 'priority, foundation, and core' to align with a State retail food code adopted April 16, 2025; commissioners voted unanimously to adopt Ordinance 2025-08.

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Harrison County on Monday adopted Ordinance 2025-08 to update its local retail food code to reflect a State update adopted April 16, 2025. County health administrator Jennifer Caffrey told the commissioners the local ordinance replaces the former "critical and non-critical" classifications with new "priority, foundation, and core" categories and that the health board chose to retain a letter grading system for food vendors.

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