Monday, August 8, 2011
Louisiana launches food safety website
Posted by Kevin Allman @NOLAKevin on Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:05 PM
On the website, users can enter a parish, town, ZIP code or the name of a restaurant and get the state sanitarians’ most recent reports. “We have sanitarians who work in every parish, every day around the state,” Greenstein said. The site lists some 32,000 licensed food dispensaries, from restaurants, bars and markets to “a service station that’s serving boudin balls and fried chicken, or sno-ball stands,” Greenstein said. The site also highlights other food safety-related news, including recalls, announcements and tips on safe preparation of school lunches.
While other states assign restaurants letter grades that must be posted onsite, the Louisiana database is purely “pass/fail,” Greenstein said, adding, “Our track record in the state is very good.”
A previous website, launched in 2005, was discontinued because “it wasn’t really built with the right database,” Greenstein said. “This [information] has always been public record, but hasn’t always been easy for the public to acquire.”
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