County Board of Health adopts sweeping Food Rule 2026

The procedural move here is the adoption itself: the Board of Health on May 19 put in place a new county food safety rule that runs from licensing and inspections to employee health, handwashing, temperature control, variances, suspension, revocation and hearings. The Teton County Food Safety Rule 2026 Resolution says the rule was adopted from the Wyoming Department of Agriculture's 2012 Food Safety Rule and the 2022 FDA Food Code, which means this is not a minor housekeeping edit but a full reset of the standards county food establishments will be judged against.

What makes it worth noting is the enforcement architecture, not just the sanitation detail. The resolution lays out application requirements, risk-based inspections, correction deadlines for critical and noncritical violations, summary suspension authority, revocation procedures and hearings. In local-government terms, this is the document that tells restaurants and other food operators what the county can require, how quickly violations must be fixed, and what process follows if an operator pushes back.