(1) On or before January 1, 2017, the department shall solicit input from retail food establishments, contracted local public health agencies, county commissioners, and others with a vested interest in the retail food inspection program to establish a uniform system to communicate health inspection results to the public. The uniform system established pursuant to this section must provide meaningful and reasonably detailed information to the public and must not summarize the results of the inspection with a letter, number, or symbol grading system, or a similar, oversimplified method of quantifying results.
After July 1, 2017, the department or a local public health agency contracted by thedepartment to perform inspections and enforce regulations regarding retail food establishments shall only utilize the system developed and approved by the department to communicate inspection results.
After January 1, 2020, the system developed and approved by the department tocommunicate inspection results may only be revised through the triennial stakeholder process required by section 25-4-1607.5.
Source: L. 2016: Entire section added, (HB 16-1401), ch. 367, p. 1548, § 3, effective August 10. L. 2019: (3) added, (HB 19-1014), ch. 11, p. 43, § 4, effective January 1, 2020.