Do not eat in Az retaurants

[Monique1]

Restaurants here can do their own inspections.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2011/07/27/20110727phoenix-area-food-inspections-safety.html

[liberal N proud]

1. Another fine example of how deregulation can kill you.

[Monique1]

3. This is sad

no food safety regulations. Every day I hear more and more death panels from these repuke idiots.

I don't eat out frequently but it is coming down to never.

[RKP5637]

2. The decay of civilization/food continues. Sickness and possibly death will follow. n/t

[Incitatus]

4. oh crap

I know a health inspector. This is a VERY bad idea.

[Igel]

5. I'm still going to.

Only Maricopa County is affected. Tucson, Flagstaff, even Apache Junction (in Pinal County) are unaffected.

The number of full inspections annually isn't reduced to 0. It's halved. Still unannounced.

And if they do what the article says they'll do, they'll still get the information. It's just that the employees will be doing the on-site measurements when the inspectors are there. I assume they think the "verification inspections" will take less time. I suspect they're wrong.

These, of course, are trivial details. The True Inference (tm) is that the entire state no longer has any food safety inspections for restaurants.

[Patiod]

17. Good to hear - I wouldn't want to have to avoid the Hotel Congress

My favorite Tucson spot.

[lbrtbell]

6. Food poisoning in AZ is nothing new

I've been down there a few times since the late 1980's, and EVERYBODY that I ever met had gotten food poisoning at least once, including my own family. I, myself, had it three times. Always, invariably, from restaurants there.

In fact, the last time I was hospitalized there for food poisoning, the doctor told me of something that had happened the night before. A nearby seafood restaurant had served bad fish, and everyone who had dined there had ended up in that same hospital.

I've been hypervigilant about food handling ever since.

[AsahinaKimi]

7. I once worked at a Italian Restaurant in Scottsdale Az

That was shut down twice from inspectors, because it wasn't clean enough. Now they are gone for good (soon after I left). I am sure had it been around today, there might be some very sick people going to the hospital.

[KansDem]

8. Remember these?

Anyone else remember when restaurants displayed ratings in their windows?

Used to see them all the time while growing up...

[FSogol]

9. It is the Republican Vision of America!

:puke:

[LuvNewcastle]

10. Now that Republicans have instituted tort reform

in a lot of states, we'll see more of this kind of thing. If the restaurant regulating itself makes someone sick, it's no biggy because even if someone dies, that person will only be allowed to sue for a smaller, set amount. No regulation and no accountability, that's the Republican dream.

[damntexdem]

14. Whereas the restaurants needed tart reform.

;-)

[fivepennies]

11. But you still can't

smoke in any of them because THAT might kill ya.

[damntexdem]

12. Boycott all Arizona businesses.

Alternatively, Arizona could pass a law asking immigrants to self-police their own documented status. ;-)

[n2doc]

13. Just like the 3rd world

And with the same results- Dysentery here we come! Hope all those old right wingers enjoy sitting on the can.....

[Warpy]

15. Well, they don't really want to kill their customers

but likely there will be a slow rise in food borne illnesses thanks to that particular piece of legislative idiocy.

Around here, restaurants get red tagged for things like massive cockroach or rodent infestations or walk ins that are too warm. Infractions that don't have to potential to kill people get warnings and a set time to correct them. I'm thrilled those investigations are happening, they keep the places honest.

However, Arizona has just made a massive blunder in this one. In addition, with the emigration of Mexican workers out of the state, the quality of the food is going to suffer greatly. Look in the kitchen of any restaurant producing superior food, the staff is likely to be heavily Mexican.

Every stupid thing those stupid Randorrhoids in the lege are pulling makes me glad Tucson lost out to NM 20 years ago when I was looking for places to go away from Boston.

However, they will serve as a laboratory to prove that the right wing agenda is not only morally bankrupt, it kills people.

[DainBramaged]

16. I don't even eat in NJ restaurants......

[otohara]

18. Anything Arizona is Boycotted

in our house.

Sorry PetSmart

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. I am afraid to even visit Arizona and I know that there are a ton of

awesome people there. But Joe Arpaio scares the hell out of me. I wonder how Maricopa Dems manage to keep from being arrested.