Official: Restaurant inspections will improve

Published December 21, 2012 11:31am ET



BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s Office of Public Health is going statewide with a plan that officials say cut past-due restaurant and retail food inspections by at least one-third during a nine-parish pilot that began in February.

Assistant Secretary J.T. Lane said Thursday that he’s making other changes to fix problems noted in a highly critical state audit released last month.

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