{"id":58,"date":"2016-12-06T12:12:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:42:13","slug":"environmental-health","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-58\"  class=\"panel-layout\"><div id=\"pg-58-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\"><div id=\"pgc-58-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\"><div id=\"panel-58-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\"><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-58-0-0-0\"><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Food\">Food Services<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Special\">Special Events<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Onsite\">Onsite Sewage <\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Private\">Private Well<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Personal\">Personal Services<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Marina\">Marina<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Beach\">Beach Water<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Pool\">Public Pool <\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Rabies\">Rabies<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Tourist\">Tourist Establishment<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Campgrounds\">Campgrounds<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#Inspections\">Restaurant Inspections<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#mold\">Mold and Moisture<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>The Environmental Health Office is open Monday \u2013 Friday from 8:15 a.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m \u00a0 For more information or to make an appointment, please call (757) 518-2700, option #3 or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/forms-and-applications\/\">this link <\/a>for environmental related applications.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3956 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/09\/clipart-man-megaphone-15-300x200.png\" alt=\"clipartman\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/09\/clipart-man-megaphone-15-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/09\/clipart-man-megaphone-15-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/09\/clipart-man-megaphone-15-272x182.png 272w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2023\/09\/clipart-man-megaphone-15.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Environmental Health <em>register closes<\/em> at 4pm, our office closes at 5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mission Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Mission of the Virginia Beach Office of Environmental Health Services, is to provide essential environmental health services to the residents and guests of Virginia Beach. These services are designed to ensure that people residing in or visiting our city can work, raise families, recreate and grow without the threat of food borne, water borne, or vector borne disease and to protect and preserve environmental resources such as earth, water, air, fauna and flora. The major focus areas of this effort are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>A Food Protection Program that includes intensive food service manager training, food establishment plan review, regulatory inspections, site specific specialized employee training and required enforcement actions.<\/li>\n<li>A Private Well Program that includes subdivision plan review, site feasibility studies, system design, regulatory inspections, sanitary surveys, and required enforcement actions.<\/li>\n<li>A Rabies Prevention Program that includes intensive public education efforts with a major emphasis on school age children, investigation of all potential human and pet exposures, conducting rabies vaccination clinics for pet dogs and cats, insuring that all human exposures receive the entire required post-exposure prophylaxis, and required enforcement actions.<\/li>\n<li>A General Environmental Program that includes liaison with federal, state and local government agencies, regulation of public swimming pools, tourist establishments, hair, nails and tanning establishments, body art and body piercing establishments and the investigation of environmental complaints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"Food\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Food Services<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2021\/06\/12VAC5-421-VDH-Food-Regulations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food Regulations Code<\/a> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">(12VAC5-421-10)<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/environmental-health\/foodborne-illness-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-711 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2019\/11\/meal_detective.png\" alt=\"mealdetective\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/environmental-health\/foodborne-illness-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Meal Detective<\/a> is an online reporting system that allows you to file a foodborne illness report when events surrounding your illness are fresh on your mind. When you think something you ate made you sick (and possibly others), first visit your physician. Then, click the My Meal Detective icon and fill out all of the questions completely to capture as much information as possible to send to your local health department. The health department will examine your report, investigate if needed, and capture real-time information about what is going on in your community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"Special\"><strong>Special Event \/ Temporary Food Service Requirements<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>A <\/strong><strong><em>yearly fee <\/em><\/strong><strong>of $40 is <\/strong><strong><u>required <\/u><\/strong><strong>to accompany your permit application.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>If you have previously paid the $40 fee (within the current year and\/or at another health department), a receipt of this payment is <\/strong><strong><u>required <\/u><\/strong><strong>with your permit application.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2020\/03\/Temporary-Food-Vender-Guide.pdf\"><strong>Special Event Guidelines and Requirements Brochure<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2017\/07\/VBDPH-New-State-TFE-Form-Edited2.pdf\"><strong>Special Event Application<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-740 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2020\/03\/env_festivals-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2020\/03\/env_festivals-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2020\/03\/env_festivals.png 643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/virginia-beach\/environmental-health\/#more-58\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food Services | Special Events | Onsite Sewage | Private Well |Personal Services | Marina | Beach Water | Public Pool | Rabies | Tourist Establishment | Campgrounds | Restaurant Inspections | Mold and Moisture The Environmental Health Office is open Monday \u2013 Friday from 8:15 a.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m \u00a0 For more information or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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