Good news for diners: restaurant health inspection reports will soon be posted online - The Coast

August 07, 2008

Looking under the grill

Good news for diners: restaurant health inspection reports will soon be posted online.

 
 

by Liz Feltham

 
 

Restaurant-goers in Nova Scotia are to get another weapon in the arsenal of their decision-making toolboxes. The province will begin posting restaurant health inspections online, starting next month.

 
 

Nova Scotia agriculture minister Brooke Taylor made the announcement in May, joining a movement towards full disclosure that began in Toronto and is slowly making its way across the country (New Brunswick has such a system; Alberta, Saskatchewan and PEI have plans to do the same).

 
 

It seems like an idea whose time has come; this information has always been available---sort of. In order to view a report currently, diners must file a request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, a process that takes far longer than it should and quells one's appetite.

 
 

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