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The Environmental Health program is responsible for issuing foodservice permits, conducting inspections, investigating foodborne illness and other complaints, and providing consultations for mobile food units operating in Chatham County. Mobile food unit operations include food service businesses that operate from any vehicle that is self-propelled or can be pulled or pushed down a sidewalk, street, highway, or waterway, on which food is prepared, processed, or converted, or which is used in selling and dispensing food to the end consumer.
Mobile food units must operate from an approved restaurant or *commissary. Mobile food units use a commissary to conduct any food preparation activities such as food washing, thawing, cooking, cooling, reheating, and utensil washing.
If you are a mobile food unit permitted out of another county and want to operate in Chatham County, please complete a Verification of Food Sale Form and submit a copy of your food permit with a recent inspection report.
To meet NC Rules Governing the Sanitation of Food Service Establishments, Rule .2670, all out-of-county Mobile Food Units operating in Chatham County are required to complete the Verification of Food Sales Form Annually.
Are you hosting an event and would like to include food trucks?
Please contact Angela Hughes angela.hughes@chathamcountync.gov for our approved list of permitted MFUs