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Restaurant inspections in Maryland
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.
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Who inspects
Delegated to Maryland's local (county / Baltimore City) health departments; the Maryland Department of Health's Office of Food Protection directs the public to contact a local health department food program Agency page
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What the public sees
A narrative violation list; state regulation requires critical item violations to be documented separately and requires public disclosure of inspection results, but there is no statewide grade or score. Format varies by locality. Source
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Posting the result
Posting rule varies locally. COMAR requires public disclosure of inspection results but not a posted grade; no statewide customer-facing grade/placard posting requirement was confirmed. Rule
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Food code in force
Not confirmed. The FDA Food Code is a model, not a federal mandate — each state decides which edition to adopt and how far to amend it.
| Where to search | Coverage |
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| Montgomery County Food Inspection dataset | County |
If you run the restaurant
The record is public either way. The useful move is to read it before a customer does.
Pull your own record
Search yourself in the lookup above and read every line of the last three reports. Repeat violations are what escalate.
Work the ten risk factors
Most citations trace back to the same ten practices the FDA measures nationally. Run the ten-minute self-check.
Fix, document, re-inspect
Dated photos and a written correction log are what a re-inspection rewards. What to do after a bad inspection.
Other states
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