Inspections are performed at the county health departments (CHD) . Each CHD is responsible for all DOH-regulated food service establishments located within their county.


There are several types of inspections that are performed. The types of inspections that you may see in this report are routine inspections, re-inspections, and complaint inspections.

Routine inspections

Periodic inspections that are performed as a part of the ongoing food safety system.

There is no prior notice or pre-arranged time frame before the inspector arrives.

Re-inspections

Completed when a facility has violations that need corrections in more than the standard timeframe.

A specific date violations must be corrected and an arranged time will be scheduled for the re-inspection.

Complaint inspections

Performed in response to a citizen’s complaint.

There is no prior notice or pre-arranged time frame before the inspector arrives.

Once an inspector completes an inspection, it is given a result of satisfactory, unsatisfactory, or incomplete.

Satisfactory

No observed violations at the time of inspection or the violations that were observed were not significant enough to require correction before the next routine inspection.

UnSatisfactory

Violations were a significant threat to public health and sanitation and require correction before the next routine inspection.

Incomplete

The inspection was interrupted and the inspector had to leave before completing the inspection.


COMPLAINTS


Additional Information

The Department of Health no longer works with food service facilities in hospitals, nursing homes, child care facilities, many group homes, and churches and other not-for-profit religious organizations.  For information regarding child care facilities, please contact the Department of Children and Families.