Want to know how your favorite restaurant handles food safety? You can read our inspection reports. These reports tell you the conditions we saw at the time of inspection. Reports may not reflect corrective actions the establishment made or the current condition.
Food establishments
Food establishment reports include:
To look up health inspection reports, visit this site: Restaurant and Food Service Inspections
Why we do health inspections
We do health inspections to make sure establishments are handling food safely. When food is not handled safely, people can get sick from eating it.
How we do health inspections
Routine Inspection - At least once a year we do a routine inspection of restaurants and retail food stores. They are usually unannounced. Our sanitarians look at how food is handled, the temperature of the food, and the hygiene and health
of employees. Sometimes we schedule inspections to make sure the appropriate staff will be there.
Reinspection - When we find health code violations on a routine inspection, we conduct a follow-up inspection.
Our inspection
reports include:
Health code violation
The five most common violations that cause foodborne illness outbreaks are:
Types of Health Code Violations:
Priority violations must be corrected immediately, or within a few days. If not fixed properly, they are more likely to cause foodborne illness. If these violations cannot be corrected during the inspection, a reinspection is required.
Core violations relate to cleaning and maintenance. Some examples are dirty floors and plumbing leaks.
"Repeat" means the violation was seen and documented on previous routine inspection reports.
"Corrected Onsite" means the violation was corrected during the routine inspection.
Health Department Office Location
2nd Floor, 300 4th St. N.
La Crosse, WI 54601
Main Business Phone: 608-785-9872
Email:
[email protected]
In a public health emergency call 911
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Office Hours: 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday-Friday; some service hours may vary
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