COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– As of the primary of July, many meals security duties that have been a part of the South Carolina Division of Well being and Environmental Management (DHEC) are actually dealt with by the South Carolina Division of Agriculture (SCDA).
The adjustments come from laws handed in Might 2023 that eradicated DHEC and divided its packages amongst present and new companies.
The brand new Retail Meals Security Division will regulate restaurant kitchens, grocery delis, caterers, faculty cafeterias, some comfort shops, and another institutions.
SCDA’s Laboratory Providers Division has taken over the Milk Lab and will likely be liable for testing fluid milk samples and a few milk merchandise.
Companies that have been regulated by the previous DHEC Manufactured Meals program together with ice, comfortable drinks, bottled water, frozen desserts, butter and cheese, are actually regulated by SCDA’s present Meals and Security program.
This system oversees meals manufacturing on the wholesale degree.
Officers say the packages are a part of SCDA’s Client Safety Division, which regulates many agricultural, meals, and consumer-related providers in South Carolina, together with weights and measuring units (together with gas pumps and grocery scales), animal and pet meals, seeds, and produce farming.
Customers will quickly start to see new SCDA-branded letter grade decals on Retail Meals Institution home windows and the general public can entry the SC Meals Grades system by the SCDA web site or utilizing the QR code on the decal to learn inspection experiences and consider letter grades for Retail Meals Institutions.