Food safety: forms and documents
Collection of forms, documents and resources from the Agri-food Inspection Services Division on food safety.
Forms
- Food Establishment Permit Application Form (PDF) (restaurants, mobile, food shops)
- Food Establishment Permit Renewal Application Form (PDF)
- Permission to Use a Permitted Eating Establishment Form - Temporary Food Service Events/Public Markets (PDF)
- Public Market Organizer Vendor List Form (PDF)
- Public Market Permit Application Form (PDF)
- Temporary Food Service Event Notification Form (PDF)
- Temporary Food Service Event Notification Form - Appendix A (PDF)
Documents and guides
- Accessible Restaurants Standard (PDF)
- Bake Sales: Guidelines (PDF)
- Cleaning Schedule (PDF)
- Daily Hot Holding Temperature Log (PDF)
- Food Hygiene (Handling) Courses
- Food Hygiene (Handling) Courses - Food Establishments Exemptions (PDF)
- Meat Processors - Food Safety Guidelines (PDF)
- Mobile Food Service - Food Safety Guidelines (PDF)
- Nova Scotia Food Retail and Food Services Code (PDF)
- Planning for Foodservice - Guide to Opening a Foodservice Establishment (PDF)
- Planning for Volunteer Foodservice - Guide to Safe Food Handling for Volunteers (PDF)
- Public Markets - Food Safety Guidelines (PDF)
- Public Markets - Selling Foods at Public Markets (PDF)
- Temporary Food Service Event Notification Exemptions (PDF)
- Temporary Food Service Events - Self Inspection Checklist (PDF)
- Temporary Food Service Events - Temperature Log Sheet (PDF)
- Temporary Food Service Events Standard (PDF)
- Temporary Food Service Events/Public Market - Bleach Sanitizer (PDF)
- Temporary Food Service Events/Public Market - Temporary Hand Wash Station (PDF)
- Water Use During Boil Water Advisory (PDF)
Factsheets, posters and resources
- Back to School - How to Avoid the Lunch Bag Blues (PDF)
- Back to School - How to Avoid the Lunch Bag Blues: French (PDF)
- BBQ Fundraisers Factsheet (PDF)
- Canning and Botulinum Factsheet (PDF)
- Catering Foods (PDF)
- Catering Foods: French (PDF)
- Community Pantries (PDF)
- Food Safety and Holiday Turkey (PDF)
- Food Safety and Holiday Turkey: French (PDF)
- Food Safety and the Shopping Cart (PDF)
- Food Safety and the Shopping Cart: French (PDF)
- Food Safety Tips: Holiday Leftovers (PDF)
- Food Safety Tips: Holiday Leftovers: French (PDF)
- Food Thermometers for Safe Cooking (PDF)
- Food Thermometers for Safe Cooking: French (PDF)
- Holiday Food Safety Tips (PDF)
- Holiday Food Safety Tips: French (PDF)
- Home Prepared Low Risk Baked Goods Factsheet (PDF)
- Internal Cooking Temperatures Chart (PDF)
- Partying at Home and Feeding a Crowd (PDF)
- Partying at Home and Feeding a Crowd: French (PDF)
- Potentially Hazardous Foods (PDF)
- Safe Food Outdoors (PDF)
- Safe Food Outdoors: French (PDF)
- Saving Foods When Power is Off (PDF)
- Saving Foods When Power is Off: French (PDF)
- Shellfish Food Safety (PDF)
- Shellfish Food Safety: French (PDF)
- Smoked Fish Products (PDF)
- Smoked Food Products (PDF)
- Smoked Meats (PDF)
- Sprouted Seeds Factsheet (PDF)
- Summer Barbecuing (PDF)
- Temperature Danger Zone (PDF)
- Temperature Danger Zone: French (PDF)
- Temperature Danger Zone Poster (PDF)
- Unpasteurized Apple Cider (PDF)
- Wash Fruits and Vegetables Before Eating Poster (PDF)
Videos
- Temporary Food Service Event Notifications (Vimeo video)
- Temporary Food Service Events (Vimeo video)