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The data were compiled by the City of Hamilton's public health department. Includes inspections from January 1, 2004 to early February 2007. Readers should be cautious in drawing detailed conclusions from this data alone. Conditions may have changed since the last inspection recorded here.

The original inspection reports are on file with the City of Hamilton and can be requested by citizens from the public health department.

The Hamilton Spectator strives for maximum possible accuracy in this data but cannot be responsible for data entry errors, omissions, duplicated records, or other shortfalls in the data provided by the city. These are known problems with a small percentage of the data. Please contact Fvallance-jones@thespec.com if you identify an error in the data related to your premise. Please be ready to provide copies of paper inspection reports to verify the error. We will correct any verified errors as quickly as possible.

See below for explanation of data fields.

IntTemp: Violation related to internal temperature of cold and frozen hazardous foods.

CookTemp: Violation related to cooking/hot holding/reheating of hazardous foods.

Contam: Violation related to protection of food from adulaternation and contamination.

ContamFoodhand: Violation related to protection of food from contamination by food handlers

In above violation fields, C means the violation corrected at time of inspection, U that it was not.

Hazardous foods are foods such as eggs in the shell, meats and cooked rice which can harbour the development of pathogens causing food poisoning if kept neither hot enough or cold enough for a sufficient period of time.

Non criticals: Eight categories of violations not likely to lead directly to food poisoning.

Inspection types: IN=Routine inspection, RI=Reinspection, CO=Consultation, CN=Complaint, CR=Complaint/Routine combined, FR=Food recall, HC=HAACP audit

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