Friday, July 27, 2012
St. Charles area restaurant inspections May 1 to June 31.
St. Charles County Department of Community Health and the Environment regularly inspects food service establishments throughout St. Charles County, except for within limits of St. Peters. Businesses are inspected one to four times a year or after public complaints. "Lower-risk" places, like gas-stations that serve pre-packaged foods, are inspected less often than "higher-risk" places, like a restaurant, said Doug Bolnick, spokesman for the health department. The establishments begin with a score of 100 and points are deducted based on the severity of problems observed. According to the department's website, a low score does not mean the restaurant was unsafe on the day of the inspection. "A place could have just one deficiency that garners…
Thursday, July 26, 2012
St. Charles area restaurant inspections May 1 to June 31.
Businesses are inspected one to four times a year or after public complaints. "Lower-risk" places, like gas-stations that serve pre-packaged foods, are inspected less often than "higher-risk" places, like a restaurant, said Doug Bolnick, spokesman for the health department. The establishments begin with a score of 100 and points are deducted based on the severity of problems observed. According to the department's website, a low score does not mean the restaurant was unsafe on the day of the inspection. "A place could have just one deficiency that garners a relatively 'high' score out of 100, but that the problem is so critical, it forces immediate action – while another may have two or three non-critical deficiencies that would give that …
Thursday, June 28, 2012
As temperatures soared toward 100, St. Charles County Health Department and area agencies practiced dispensing medication for anthrax at a drill in St. Peters.
St. Charles County health officials handed out "medicine" for anthrax--along with chicken sandwiches--in a regional bioterrorism drill in St. Peters Thursday. Working with 25 other agencies, St. Charles County Department of Health and Environment set up a medical dispensing site near Mid Rivers Mall to test its ability to respond to a terrorism incident involving a biological agent like anthrax. Community members lined up in cars to pick up the "medication" — actually empty medicine bottles — and a free sandwich from Chick-Fil-A. With temperatures reaching triple digits during the drill, officials also had to contend with the heat. Paramedics were on hand to respond to actual medical emergencies. At least one participant felt the effects…
Dawn
4:39 am on Saturday, July 28, 2012
The Red Room is so gross in so many ways. There isn't enough space in this column to write how nasty it is. I would have thought that they would have gotten a lower score. The health inspector was being nice to give them a 81. more ›