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SUBPART A: GENERAL PROVISIONS

SECTION 750.20 INSPECTIONS AND INSPECTION REPORT

1. All food service establishments are subject to inspection at all times.
   
2. The operator of the food service establishment shall receive a written report from the regulatory authority at the end of the inspection. The inspection findings shall be reported on the "Retail Food Sanitary Inspection Report", Form IL 482-200 (see Appendix A) or on a report form substantially similar which, includes at a minimum, the same information and addresses all forty-five (45) items.
   
3. All forty-five (45) items on the inspection report shall be addressed and rated in accordance with the Food Service Sanitation Code, 77 Ill. Adm. Code 750.
   
4. An alternate scoring system, as approved by the Director and which evaluates all aspects of the Food Service Sanitation Code, may be substituted for the current scoring system of 100 points minus debit points. This may include systems, for example, where each violation rather than each item is assigned a weight, where an additional point value is debited for lack of the required certified food service manager, where critical violations (to be defined) carry a larger than usual point value because of inherent risk, where separate scoring systems are instituted for critical and non-critical violations, or other effective methods which assist the inspector in making an evaluation of the sanitation level in the food establishment.
   1. The approval process requires any regulatory authority who seeks to use an alternate scoring system to submit a complete description of the alternate to the Director for consideration. The application/approval process consists of the following:
      
      1. A descriptive statement provided by the applicant shall indicate that the alternate scoring system evaluates all items on the Retail Food Sanitation Inspection Report (Form IL 482-0200) and all sections of the Food Service Sanitation and Retail Food Store Sanitation Codes.
      2. A printed example of the proposed alternate scoring system shall be provided.
      3. An examination of the applicant's form must show that all other aspects of the form besides the alternate scoring system are still substantially similar to the form found in Appendix A (Form IL 482-0200).
      4. Providing the application fulfills subsections (A) through (C) above, notification will be provided by the Director in writing that the alternate scoring system is approved and may be incorporated into the regulatory authority's Retail Food Sanitary Inspection form.
   2. The Illinois Department of Public Health method for determining the number of debit points is patterned after the United States Food Drug Administration model. A perfect score is 100 points. Each violation is categorized ("item" number column on the inspection form) and has a corresponding value which is deducted from the 100 point score ("weight" column on the inspection form).

(Source: Added at 13 Ill. Reg. 18888, effective December 1, 1989)