Fresno County Environmental Health Division

This office is suppose to be responsible for taking calls from the public to report facilities that may not be in compliance with health code regulations.
The management in this office has told their restaurant inspectors, as told to me by a supervisor, not to make it a priority to ensure complience when restaurants have been reported to be in violation of the health code that requires the doors that lead into the business to be closed unless an insect (fly fan) or other air barrier is installed and in operation.
«a) Overhead air curtains must be provided when delivery doors remain open for an extended period of time and when necessary to exclude insects, dust, dirt and fumes. [CRFC 114 259]
b) An air curtain installed inside the building shall produce a downward and outward air flow not less than three (3) inches thick at the nozzle with an air velocity of not less than 1600 FPM (feet per minute) across the entire opening at a point three (3) feet above the floor. [State of California, Food and Drug Circular 80 – 7]
c) An air curtain installed outside the building shall produce air at the same velocity (1600 FPM) directed straight down across the entire door opening. The air curtain shall turn on automatically when the door is opened. [State of California, Food and Drug Circular 80 – 7]
d) Large cargo type doors shall not open directly into a food preparation area. Cargo type doors that open into any food warehouse of a food facility may only be open during deliveries. [CRFC 11 4266(a)]
NOTE: An overhead air curtain is not a substitute device to permit a door to remain open».
Numerous restaurants in Fresno County have been reported and I have received follow up calls by the inspectors that have warned the restaurants but (some) restaurants continue to ignore these warnings.