ONTARIO: Info will be available about local restaurants - (The Sault Star)
December 22, 2007 – 7:46 pmWhen I closed out my Dec. 8 column, I indicated I had had no word from Algoma Public Health as to whether it was going to change its policy in regard to releasing information on its inspections of local and area restaurants to the public.
As you will recall, the column dwelled on a CBC series detailing how health units in other parts of the province and country make restaurant inspection information public while those in Northern Ontario do not.
APH appeared to be a prime example of the reticence of northern health units to release such information, the CBC first forced to go the freedom-of- information route and then, when the information it received from APH had the names of restaurants blacked out, to follow up with an approach to the privacy commission.
Well, it turns out that APH will definitely be prepared to release such information in future but I still […]
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