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Restaurant inspections in New Mexico

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 Statewide, with local carve-outs Posting rule not confirmed
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    Who inspects

    Statewide with two carve-outs: the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Food Safety Program permits, inspects and provides technical assistance statewide, but does not have jurisdiction in Bernalillo County and Albuquerque, which have their own food safety programs Agency page

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    What the public sees

    Albuquerque reports show an operating status plus inspection outcome descriptors such as 'Unsatisfactory' with re-inspection; no statewide grade or score was confirmed for NMED for the rest of the state. Source

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    Posting the result

    Posting rule not confirmed.

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    Food code in force

    2017 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. No NMED statewide public inspection-result search portal was found; NMED records are obtained through its public records portal, and enforcement actions are published monthly via NMED's Enforcement Watch. NMED operates an Open Data Portal with an API, but no food-inspection dataset was specifically confirmed.
Official inspection lookups — New Mexico
Where to searchCoverage
City of Albuquerque restaurant inspection resultsCity
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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