The Press Herald has published another article about restaurant inspections in Portland,
[President of the Maine Restaurant Association Dick] Grotton said Portland restaurants, many of which are in old buildings, are being cited for facility issues, such as not having a covered trash recetacle in the ladies room.
Instead of focusing on what are considered non-critical violations, he said, the city should concentrate on critical violations that could lead to illness.
“There are degrees of bad,” he said. “We need to separate what’s really important and what’s just part of the code.”
MPBN also interviewed Groton about the restaurant inspection process,
But Dick Grotton, president of the Maine Restaurant Association, says the records alone don’t provide a complete picture – mainly because some of the violations have nothing to do with food safety. Grotton spoke with MPBN’s Jennifer Mitchell.
The full Maine Food Code is available online on Maine.gov.