Shasta County commercial kitchen compliance

Shasta County operates a CalCode-only retail food safety program through the Environmental Health Division, which sits within the Department of Resource Management (DRM). No local placard ordinance, no letter grade system, no numeric scoring overlay, no rating tier. CalCode authority directly verified verbatim: "California law states that a food facility shall not be open for business without a valid permit and Environmental Health inspections. Retail food facilities include any facility that stores, prepares, serves, manufactures, packages, transports, salvages, or otherwise handles food for dispensing or sale directly to the consumer. The law which sets minimum standards and requirements for retail food facilities is called the California Retail Food Code (Cal Code). Any person proposing to construct or modify a food facility shall also submit plans to the EHD detailing the construction or changes to the facility." Jurisdictional scope verbatim: "Environmental Health Division responsibility covers Shasta County as well as the three incorporated cities within the County" (Redding, Anderson, Shasta Lake city) -- consolidated EH oversight pattern with no city carve-outs. Distinctive transparency model: Shasta operates a custom ASP.NET online restaurant inspection results portal at co.shasta.ca.us/EHI/frmPubInspViol.aspx, searchable by street name, facility name, and mobile food vendor type. ABOVE-FLOOR transparency tier within the violations-list-only family -- queryable portal access rather than records-request-only. Approximately 1,000 retail food facilities under EH jurisdiction (largest unmigrated CA county at time of migration).