NORTH CAROLINA: Restaurant inspections get tougher - (Charlotte Observer)
July 5, 2008 – 6:21 pmIt was just a letter about the state changing its restaurant inspection form.
But when he received it in May, Tony Grippo took it seriously enough to post the new form and encourage employees at BrickTop’s, the SouthPark restaurant he manages, to practice the standards it outlined.
Such as: Wash hands thoroughly before handling food. Cook food for the proper time and at the right temperature. And make sure surfaces that touch food are sanitized.
They’re not new standards. But they’re freshly emphasized on a new form local health departments told N.C. restaurateurs about in May and began using this week.
The new form outlines 18 critical violations, or those that have a high chance of making diners ill such as failure to wash hands or heat and cool food properly.
The old form listed only 11 critical violations. It also assigned similar weight to critical violations and breaches of good retail practices, preventive […]
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