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 You received a repetitive violation on your most recent inspection. What does this mean? First and foremost, repetitive violations may represent an ongoing risk of foodborne illness to consumers. Second, repetitive violations can eventually impact the status of your permit to operate. What can you do? Maricopa County Environmental Services has the tools to help you break the cycle of repetitive violations:
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Active Managerial Control Intervention Visit: When a repeat priority violation occurs, your inspector will offer to return to your business to help you develop an Active Managerial Control plan. This Active Managerial Control (AMC) Intervention Visit is free. Achieving AMC of repetitive violations begins with 3 simple steps: developing a policy, training staff, and verifying that the plan is carried out. Click here to learn more!
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Active Managerial Control Class: When the same priority violation is documented on 3 consecutive inspections, you will have the option of attending our nationally-recognized Active Managerial Control Class. Attending the AMC class will defer any legal action until your next inspection. If the violation is corrected on the inspection following the class, you’ve broken the cycle! Click here to learn more!
 Active Managerial Control Class attendees have reduced the occurrence of priority violation by over 1/2
To learn more about the procedures described above click here.
Good news! Our AMC Class is open to anyone interested in attending and it’s free. You can sign up now by visiting esd.maricopa.gov
 One of Maricopa County Environmental Services Department’s (ESD) primary goals is to ensure that consumers have safe food to eat. To this end, ESD implements requirements to prevent food from being adulterated, either accidentally or intentionally.
Food defense means the effort to protect food from intentional acts of adulteration. Food establishments that apply effective food defense strategies can significantly reduce the likelihood of an intentional adulteration.
What can food service operators do?
- If you SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING. Notify management if you observe something suspicious.
- Secure open containers of food or ingredients.
- Control access of employees, delivery personnel, and patrons to food storage and preparation areas.
- As appropriate, keep doors locked to prevent access to food preparation and storage areas, including loading docks.
- Monitor self-service areas (i.e. salad bars, condiment areas, open bulk containers, etc.) for evidence of tampering.
- Monitor products on retail shelves for evidence of tampering (i.e. damaged packages, evidence of resealing of packages, leaking packages, etc.).
- Monitor the security of the premises as appropriate.
- Conduct background checks on employees.
- Train employees on awareness of suspicious activity and reporting procedures.
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