How restaurant inspections work in Michigan
Who inspects Michigan's restaurants, how results are graded, and how to read them on CleanPlate.
CleanPlate's Michigan coverage is Detroit, where the city health department publishes inspection outcomes as open data.
Who does the inspecting
The City of Detroit Health Department inspects food-service establishments in the city under Michigan's food law, which adopts the FDA Food Code.
How results are graded
Detroit's published records boil each inspection down to whether the establishment was in compliance. CleanPlate maps in-compliance results to PASS and out-of-compliance results to FAIL. The underlying reports use the FDA's priority/core violation structure; where detail is published, it appears on the inspection timeline.
Reading it on CleanPlate
Every Michigan 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.