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Restaurant inspections in Montana
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; Montana DPHHS Food and Consumer Safety Section sets the rules, but the local health officer, registered sanitarian, or sanitarian-in-training employed by the local board of health performs inspections within that jurisdiction Agency page
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What the public sees
A narrative violation list on the state Retail Food Establishment Inspection Report form, with no grade or score. Source
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Posting the result
Posting rule not confirmed. State rule requires records be retained five years and made available to the department, but no customer-facing posting mandate was found. Rule
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Food code in force
2013 FDA Food Code (with Supplement). 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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| Healthy Gallatin restaurant inspection reports | County |
| RiverStone Health (Yellowstone County) restaurant inspection search | County |
No official bulk or API dataset found. Results are available one establishment at a time, or by public records request.
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.
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