Oregon - Statewide Inspections

Restaurants, mobile units, commissaries, warehouses, vending operations, swimming pools, spas, traveler’s accommodations, recreational parks and organizational camps are licensed and inspected by local environmental health staff.

To review inspection reports for a licensed facility in this jurisdiction, just enter the name in the search box to see all inspections conducted since starting with the HealthSpace software. All inspections have a 14-day delay before they are posted online. Please check back if an inspection isn’t available to view yet.

Inspections are unannounced and focus on items most likely to cause illness or injury to patrons of these facilities, but also include items such as general cleanliness and maintenance. In a food service facility, the focus is on approved food sources, cooking temperatures, holding temperatures of food, personal hygiene of food handlers and contaminated/dirty equipment. For a public pool or spa, the emphasis is water quality values for disinfectants such as chlorine, clarity, entrapment concerns, proper filtration and the pool enclosure. Tourist facilities are evaluated for safety and general sanitation concerns.

Restaurant and Bed and Breakfast facilities are assigned a sanitation score as a result of the inspection. All other inspections are non-scored. Violations that are considered critical in nature are required to be corrected at the time of inspection or may result in a re-inspection of the facility. Oregon evaluates food service facilities using the Oregon Food Sanitation Rules, which are modeled on the 2009 Food and Drug Administration Food Code. The Food Sanitation Rules grade violations based on whether they are Priority, Priority Foundation or Core in each food service facility:

A Priority item (P) is a provision that has a direct connection to preventing foodborne illness and compliance is a priority.

A Priority foundation item (Pf) includes an item that requires specific actions, equipment or procedures by management to control risk factors, such as; personnel training, equipment, documentation, record keeping and labeling.

And a Core item (C) includes an item that is usually related to general sanitation, operational controls, sanitation standard operating procedures (SOPs), facilities or structures, equipment design or general maintenance.

There are two scores assigned to each inspection, a P/Pf score that is based upon a 100 point scale. P violations have a value of 5 points and Pf have a value of 3 points. Violation points are deducted from 100 to arrive at a sanitation score. Enforcement is based upon this score only. A facility with a score of 70 or above is considered in compliance with the rules. A facility with a score of 69 or lower means it has “failed to comply” with standards and is subject to enforcement provisions. A second score lists the number of core items cited during the inspection.