INDIANA: Restaurant inspection needs revised ‘menu’ - (The Post-Tribune)
October 21, 2007 – 6:07 pmA team of reporters looking at restaurant inspection in Northwest Indiana found a shortage of inspectors, vague laws, an archaic data system and a lack of resources for local health departments.
Indiana follows federal food-inspection standards that require places that sell food (from restaurants to gas stations) to be inspected twice a year. Inspectors are on the lookout for rodents, bugs and general cleanliness.
But if they find a business with problems, there’s no clear-cut remedy for correcting the violations and making sure they don’t happen again. More often than not, it depends on the inspector’s memory or method of record keeping. Files aren’t computerized, so there’s no efficient way to track serious or so-called critical violations.
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