How restaurant inspections work in Arizona
Who inspects Arizona's restaurants, how results are graded, and how to read them on CleanPlate.
CleanPlate's Arizona coverage is Tucson and surrounding Pima County, whose health department publishes a live public inspection portal.
Who does the inspecting
The Pima County Health Department inspects food establishments across the county — Tucson, its suburbs, and the unincorporated areas.
How results are graded
Pima County summarizes each inspection as a hazard rating on a plain-language scale — Excellent, Good, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement — with pass/fail outcomes underneath. CleanPlate maps the top ratings to A/B-equivalents and “needs improvement” findings to their conditional/fail equivalents, preserving the county's own wording on every inspection.
Reading it on CleanPlate
Every Arizona restaurant page on CleanPlate shows the establishment's current standing, its full inspection history with dates, and a link to the official agency behind the record. Grades are shown exactly as reported; where the source publishes no summary grade, the derived status is labeled as derived. Establishments with no inspection in over two years are treated as likely closed and excluded from search.