More than half of the restaurants and kitchens inspected by Springfield-Greene County Health Department this week passed without any violations.
Out of 65 routine inspections this week, 35 establishments did not have any reported violations, priority or non-priority.
Issues found during inspections fall into either priority or non-priority violations. Priority violations impact the safety of the food, such as cross-contamination between raw and ready-to-eat food, improper food temperature and poor personal hygiene and employee health. Multiple priority violations can lead to an establishment being shut down. Non-priority violations alone do not directly affect food safety, such as dirty floors, sticky tabletops or outside trash cans not being covered.
Food inspections take place one to three times a year, depending on the type of food served, the population served, difficulty of food preparation and past history. Restaurants preparing food from raw ingredients are inspected more often
More than half of Springfield kitchens inspected this week passed
