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Council updates food-inspection code; exempts under-18s from proposed permit fee
Summary
The council approved an amendment to the city’s food-inspection code that updates standards, formalizes a no-bare-hands rule consistent with state law and requires periodic food-handler training; the adopted amendment exempts those under 18 from paying a permit fee.
The Omaha City Council approved an amendment of the whole to Chapter 11 (Food Inspection and Protection), updating the city’s food code for the first time in roughly two decades.
Council member Pete Festersen, a co-sponsor of the amendment, described the update as largely a modernization, removing obsolete language and aligning local rules with state…
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