New Food Regulations – Effective January 1, 2019 (updated 1/8/19)

The new NM Food Regulations are officially effective as of January 1, 2019.

Please click here to visit our Regulation Update page for more details.

Who We Are:

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The New Mexico Environment Department Food Program exists to protect employees, consumers, and the general public from adverse health and safety conditions, such as foodborne illness, in public food establishments throughout our state. The Program consists of trained Environmental Specialists that conduct food inspections, Food Specialists that provide additional technical expertise, and a Program Manager.

 

 The NMED Food Program conducts the following activities:

Outreach Conducting public outreach events to help raise food safety awareness among the public.

Inspection Conducting thorough food establishment “health inspections” to assure compliance with the current New Mexico Food Service and Processing Regulations at least once per year.

Review Reviewing operational and construction plans for retail food establishments and food processing operations. New and remodeled retail operations are reviewed by our Environmental Specialists and food processing operations are reviewed by our Food Specialists. The review process helps ensure that facilities and equipment are constructed and organized in such a way to foster safe food preparation/production.

Response Responding to general food complaints and/or foodborne illness complaints and outbreaks. In the case of an outbreak, our staff works diligently to determine the source of the illness and takes appropriate steps to eliminate immediate causes and prevent such problems from arising in the future.

If you have questions or concerns and would like to contact our staff please click here

 

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