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Restaurant inspections in Nevada

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.

Varies by county Run county by county Required to be posted
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    Who inspects

    Delegated to health districts, with Nevada DHHS Environmental Health Services covering rural counties; Clark County is served by the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) and Washoe County by Northern Nevada Public Health (NNPH) Agency page

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    What the public sees

    SNHD issues letter grades with color-coded cards based on demerits: A = 0-10 (blue), B = 11-20 (green), C = 21-40 (red), Closure = 41+ (pink). NNPH (Washoe) uses Pass / Conditional Pass / Fail / Closed status. Source

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    Posting the result

    Required to be posted. Yes in Clark County: the 2023 SNHD Food Regulations require every food establishment to post its health permit and current grade or pass card in an area conspicuous to the consumer upon entering. Posting varies by district elsewhere. Rule

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    Food code in force

    2009 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.

Worth knowing. SNHD inspections have been online from 2005 to present, posted roughly five business days after inspection; NNPH reports prior to 2017 may be unavailable.
Official inspection lookups — Nevada
Where to searchCoverage
Southern Nevada Health District restaurant inspectionsCounty
Northern Nevada Public Health food 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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