Nebraska — statewide
Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Consumer Protection
In short
Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Consumer Protection issues 2 permits we publish for Nebraska — statewide, last verified 2026-09-04. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certified Food Protection Manageronly if it applies to you | Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Consumer Protection | No fee | set by the accrediting programme | 2026-09-04 |
| Retail Food Establishment Permit | Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Consumer Protection | $122 a year for a limited retail food establishment; further preparation areas add $61 each | annual — renewal payments are due by 1 August | 2026-09-04 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Certified Food Protection Manager
No state fee — the certificate is bought from an accredited private programme, and the state's own guidance points directly to the national accreditation list rather than running a programme of its own. Nebraska sets no individual food handler card requirement at state level at all; the only statewide mandate is that each establishment have a certified food protection manager as its person in charge. Some local health departments go further than the state floor — Lincoln-Lancaster County, for one, issues its own food handler and food protection manager permits under local rule — so check locally for anything beyond the manager requirement.
Retail Food Establishment Permit
The agriculture department's own fee schedule bands by establishment type and can change from year to year, but its published limited-retail figure sits at $122 for the initial permit and the same $122 annually after that, with each additional food preparation area adding $61. An establishment already operating before applying pays a further $60. This is not a statewide-only programme: applications for Lancaster, Douglas or Hall counties are forwarded to those counties' own delegated health departments — Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department and Douglas County Health Department in Omaha each run their own inspection and permitting programme rather than the state administering it directly.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Nebraska — statewide
- Phone
- (402) 471-3422
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Nebraska Department of Agriculture — food safety resources, the certified food protection manager requirementNebraska Department of Agriculture · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Nebraska Department of Agriculture — retail food inspection areas, and the counties with their own delegated programmeNebraska Department of Agriculture · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Nebraska Department of Agriculture — retail food permit renewal, due by 1 AugustNebraska Department of Agriculture · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
Other Nebraska statewide offices
- Nebraska Secretary of State, Business Services Division
- Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Licensure Unit
- Nebraska Department of Labor, Contractor Registration
- Nebraska Board of Barber Examiners
- Nebraska Department of Revenue
- Nebraska Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Board
- Nebraska State Electrical Division
Nebraska jurisdictions
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