Health approvals
Food safety plan and sanitation plan
Written procedures showing how you keep food safe (critical control points and limits) and how you clean and sanitise. Required of every food service establishment and every premises where food is processed or prepared, and approved before a permit or approval is issued.
- Who issues it
- You write them; Island Health approves them
- Forms and pages
Who needs it
Restaurants & cafésOpening or running a restaurant, café, take-out or coffee shop.BakeriesA commercial bakery, with or without a counter.Caterers & personal chefsCooking for events, offices or private clients.Food trucks & cartsSelling from a truck, trailer or cart.Delivery-only & ghost kitchensCooking for delivery and pickup only, with no dining room.Packaged food makersMaking sauces, preserves, snacks, frozen meals or other packaged food to sell.Kombucha, juice & coffee makersMaking non-alcoholic drinks, or roasting coffee.Butchers, delis & fishmongersCutting and selling meat, fish or deli foods.
The rules behind this page
- Food Premises Regulation, B.C. Reg. 210/99(ss. 23–24)Province of British Columbia (BC Laws) · Current to September 22, 2026 (last amended October 27, 2025)
- Food safety and sanitation plan templatesGovernment of British Columbia · Page updated September 6, 2017
- Food SafetyIsland Health · No date shown on the page