Does your favorite restaurant keep food at the right temperature and use clean utensils to prepare meals? Do your child’s school or daycare cafeteria employees wash their hands? Find out using the Arizona Republic/azcentral.com restaurant inspection database. With this database, you can search for food inspections in establishments such as restaurants, school cafeterias, nursing homes, hospitals, and even food trucks.
Our database shows inspection results for individual restaurants. This includes the facility name and location, facility permit information, inspection date, and type of inspection.
You’ll also see the number of priority violations the restaurant received during inspection, and the resulting letter grade, if the establishment participates in a rating scheme.
Some restaurants do not participate in the Maricopa County Department of Environmental Services grading system. Others are enrolled in cutting-edge programs in the department. Facilities participating in this program agree to establish standard operating procedures related to foodborne illness risk factors, such as food temperature control and employee illness. I also agree to train staff and conduct self-inspections to ensure proper implementation of the standards.
The database also links to details for each test on the Maricopa County website. Details of these inspections include inspector comments and corrective actions taken.
The database only includes tests performed while the facility is open. This does not include advisory visits, final construction inspections, equipment installation inspections, or visits where the inspector does not have access to the premises.
Maricopa County defines a priority violation as “a serious violation that directly contributes to an increased risk of foodborne illness or injury.” Violations of priorities are most likely caused by what consumers eat, according to the county.
Other types of violations include “minor violations that do not directly contribute to increased risk of foodborne illness, but may result in priority violations if not corrected”, “priority infrastructure”, and “core”. there is. It’s described as a “minor violation of general maintenance and hygiene.”
necessarily. Most violations are remedied upon inspection, including almost all serious violations. However, with the database, you can see which restaurants have a pattern of violating food handling standards.
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