Unpermitted Food Complaints

Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health (DEH) works to safeguard public health and ensure food provided to consumers is safe, unadulterated, and honestly presented, by regulating the food sold or distributed to the public.

Unpermitted food vendors are people who are selling/peddling food on a cart, truck, trailers, table, from the trunk of cars, or from their home WITHOUT a permit to operate from the Department of Environmental Health.

Vendors who sell/peddle ONLY prepackaged non-potentially hazardous foods and whole, uncut produce at a display less than 25 square feet are exempt from obtaining a permit to operate from the Department of Environmental Health.