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Public Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Public Health Inspections of Restaurants

American Journal of Preventive MedicinePublished 8 May 2008
Timothy F. Jones, Karen Grimm
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TL;DR

It is important to improve consumers' understanding of inspection scores and the limitations of regulatory inspections, as well as the role of such inspections in disease prevention, to improve public misconceptions and unrealistically high expectations of the public health restaurant-inspection system.

Abstract

This study identified a number of public misconceptions and unrealistically high expectations of the public health restaurant-inspection system. It is important to improve consumers' understanding of inspection scores and the limitations of regulatory inspections, as well as the role of such inspections in disease prevention.

Keywords

MedicineAgricultural and Biological Sciences