Not all Health Departments intend inspection results to be consumer-facing, while other Health Departments attempt to make the results as easily understandable as possible. There is no universal standardization applied at state or federal levels for scoring inspections, which leads to a wide variety of scoring systems across the United States and Canada (e.g., pass or fail, letter grade, numeric, percentile, etc.)
Articles in this section
- How does inspection criteria vary across Health Departments?
- Why do re-inspections occur?
- How often do Health Departments conduct routine inspections?
- What are the reasons or occasions that a Health Department inspects a facility?
- What causes a facility closure by a Health Department?
- Why don't all Health Departments assign a grade to their inspections?
- What facilities do Health Departments inspect?
- What does the "jurisdiction" refer to?
- What are critical violations?
- What is a consumer complaint?