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Utah Local Department of Health and Agriculture Contact Information

Utah State Department of Health Contact Information

Most questions regarding food production, handling, sales and serving, including cottage food laws and regulations are handled by the state's local health department or department of agriculture, and sometimes by a city or county business registration office.

Utah Health Department

Main Office: Utah Department of Health
P.O. Box 141010
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-1010

Phone Numbers: For questions about health information and resources for programs within the Utah Department of Health, please call our Health Resource Line at 1-888-222-2542. You may also call us at 801-538-6003.

Utah local department of health contacts

At the local level, public health services in Utah are organized into 13 health districts. Seven of the 13 local health departments are single county and six are multi-county districts. The San Juan health department was just formed in 2015.

Local health departments provide many essential health services including investigation of disease outbreaks, regulation of known sources of health hazards such as food establishments, and health education and prevention services such as immunizations and preventive health screenings.

• Bear River Health Department - (Box Elder, Cache, Rich counties)
  655 E 1300 N
  Logan, UT 84341-2570
  Phone: (435) 792-6500
  Email: lloydber@BRHD.org.
  
• Central Utah Public Health Department - (Juab, Millard, Piute, Sevier, Wayne, Sanpete counties)
  70 W Westview Dr
  Richfield, UT 84701-1868
  Phone: 435-896-5451
  Email: nselin@utah.gov.
  
• Davis County Department of Health -
  22 S State St
  Clearfield, UT 84015-1043
  Phone: (801) 525-5000
  Email: brianl@co.davis.ut.us.
  
• Salt Lake County Health Department -
  2001 S. State St., S-2500
  Salt Lake City, UT 84190-2150
  Phone: 385-468-4100
  Email: gedwards@slco.org
  
• San Juan Public Health -
  735 South 200 West
  Blanding, UT 84511
  Phone: (435) 359-0038
  Email: kbenge@sanjuancounty.org
  
• Southeast Utah Health Department - (Carbon, Emery, Grand counties)
  28 S 100 E
  Price, UT 84501-3002
  Phone: (435) 637-3671
  Email: bbradfor@utah.gov
  
• Southwest Utah Public Health Department - (Garfield, Iron, Kane, Washington, Beaver counties)
  620 S 400 E Ste 400
  St George, UT 84770-7063
  Phone: (435) 986-2540
  Email: dblodgett@swuhealth.org
  
• Summit County Health Department -
  650 Round Valley Dr
  Park City, UT 84060-7511
  Phone: (435) 333-1582
  Email: rbullough@summitcounty.org
  
• Tooele County Health Department -
  151 N Main St
  Tooele, UT 84074-2141
  Phone: (435) 277-2300
  Email: jcoombs@tooelehealth.org
  
• Tri-County Health Department - (Daggett, Duchesne, Uintah counties)
  133 S 500 E
  Vernal, UT 84078-2728
  Phone: (435) 247-1177
  Email: jmathis@tricountyhealth.com
  
• Utah County Health Department -
  151 S University Ave Ste 2800
  Provo, UT 84601-4427
  Phone: 801-851-7000
  Email: ralph@utahcounty.gov
  
• Wasatch County Health Department -
  55 S 500 E
  Heber City, UT 84032-1918
  Phone: (435) 654-2700
  Email: rprobst@wasatch.utah.gov
  
• Weber-Morgan Health Department -
  477 23Rd St
  Ogden, UT 84401-1507
  Phone: (801) 399-7100
  Email: bbennion@co.weber.ut.us

 

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U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a tool, the AskUSDA site providing information from across USDA all in one place. Just type key words or phrases into the search box. Your search will provide the top 10 results from across USDA. For the best search results, keep in mind that including "and" in the search box will exclude articles that don't include all searched words. Including "or" in the search box will include articles with any of the searched words.

If you have specific USDA questions that you cannot find answers to on the site, call (202) 720-2791 or email USDA at askusda@usda.gov.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

If you are looking for the national US Department of Health, that's the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and here is the mailing address and phone number:

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Toll Free Call Center: 1-877-696-6775
Note: Please be aware that mail sent to their Washington D.C. area offices takes an additional 3-4 days to process due to security precautions.