How restaurant inspections work in Oregon
Who inspects Oregon's restaurants, how results are graded, and how to read them on CleanPlate.
Oregon runs one of the country's most consistent scoring systems: semiannual inspections scored 0–100, statewide rules, county delivery. CleanPlate covers the Portland metro and the major Willamette Valley and southern Oregon cities.
Who does the inspecting
County environmental health programs — Multnomah (Portland), Washington, Clackamas, Marion (Salem), Lane (Eugene), and Jackson (Medford) among them — inspect under Oregon Health Authority food-sanitation rules.
How results are graded
Restaurants get roughly two unannounced inspections a year, scored from 100 with deductions per violation; priority violations deduct more. A score below 70 fails and triggers re-inspection. Because the arithmetic is uniform statewide, Oregon scores are unusually comparable city to city — a 94 in Medford means the same thing as a 94 in Portland, which is not true across, say, Texas.
Reading it on CleanPlate
Every Oregon 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.