In an e-mail message, Elliott Marcus, associate commissioner for New York's Bureau of Food Safety, said, "If you're serving food to the public, you need a health department permit and you have to comply with all the health code rules to keep food safe," adding that they inspect frequently.
Moreover, premises located to crowded places, or assessed by high-risk population (patients, children etc), or have a history of unsatisfactory inspection results, or not complying with corrective actions, could be inspected more frequently.
Once buildings are finished they are inspected less frequently.
His office found that blocks where Latinos lived were inspected more frequently than non-Latino neighborhoods with similar housing.
Hospitals and nursing homes with a history of deficiencies should be inspected more frequently, he said, while high-quality providers can be inspected less often.
While it is absolutely necessary to weed out poor services, one consequence is that it would take "good" ones longer to reach an "outstanding" rating, regardless of improvement, simply because they are inspected less frequently.
This may explain why the cruise lines don't want to have their ships inspected too frequently.
