The City Council In Lewiston, Maine, has decided not to eliminate its local restaurant inspection program and not to withdraw funding from the city’s sanitarian positions. The votes was unanimous.
Lewiston remains one of three cities in Maine that, for the state, handles local restaurant inspections
The City Council took
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The City Council in Lewiston, ME, will still vote next month to end local restaurant inspections, but there will not be any survey of businesses before then.
Lewiston currently inspects restaurants in the city under an agreement with the state. But the paperwork is ready to blow up that agreement
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The 9-day closure of a popular Lewiston, ME, restaurant has created such a kerfuffle that Food Safety News has looked deeper into what happened. Dialing back to last year, it seems an emerging cockroach infestation concerned restaurant staff who tried working with their pest control contractor but found it necessary
Continue Reading Its own staff reported the cockroach infestation that led to the politically charged closure of Maine restaurant
UPDATE- The Lewiston City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to postpone any action on the items below until March 19. No change in city restaurant inspections or staffing will occur until after that date.
All the following stem from the temporary January closure of a popular restaurant called DaVinci’s at
Continue Reading City ending local restaurant inspections in retaliation against its inspectors for closing a popular restaurant