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Restaurant inspections in Colorado

Who inspects, where the record lives, what the public actually sees, and whether it has to be posted on the door. Every line below links to the government source it came from.

Pass / fail Run county by county Posting rule not confirmed
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    Who inspects

    Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), mostly delegated; CDPHE directly licenses and inspects only nine counties (Clear Creek, Dolores, Gilpin, Moffat, Ouray, Park, Pitkin except Aspen, Rio Blanco, and San Juan), with delegated county partners handling the rest Agency page

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    What the public sees

    Pass/fail-style status categories: Pass, Re-Inspection Required, and Closed. Source

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    Posting the result

    Posting rule not confirmed.

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    Food code in force

    2022 FDA Food Code. The FDA Food Code is a model, not a federal mandate — each state decides which edition to adopt and how far to amend it.

Worth knowing. Many counties feed a shared state portal, but not all of them. Some county instances are reachable directly, and the statewide entry point is inconsistent. If your county does not share reports with the state, contact that local public health agency directly.
Official inspection lookups — Colorado
Where to searchCoverage
Larimer County Restaurant Inspection DatabaseCounty
Weld County Restaurant InspectionsCounty
Bulk data

No official bulk or API dataset found. Results are available one establishment at a time, or by public records request.

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If you run the restaurant

The record is public either way. The useful move is to read it before a customer does.

Step one

Pull your own record

Search yourself in the lookup above and read every line of the last three reports. Repeat violations are what escalate.

Step two

Work the ten risk factors

Most citations trace back to the same ten practices the FDA measures nationally. Run the ten-minute self-check.

Step three

Fix, document, re-inspect

Dated photos and a written correction log are what a re-inspection rewards. What to do after a bad inspection.

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Other states

Connecticut · Delaware · District of Columbia · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii  — or see all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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