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Chicago violation 47: FOOD & NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANABLE, PROPERLY DESIGNED, CONSTRUCTED & USED

Official wording (Chicago Department of Public Health): FOOD & NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANABLE, PROPERLY DESIGNED, CONSTRUCTED & USED

In inspections since January 2021 this violation number was listed 17,678 times at 5,218 currently active establishments in our data. Chicago's dataset does not label individual violations as critical or not, so FoodCheck USA does not assign a severity.

Citations by year

YearTimes cited
20212,262
20222,393
20232,885
20243,553
20253,852
20262,733

Most recent citations

Establishments where this code most recently appeared. A citation reflects one inspection on one date.

How Chicago inspections are scored

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), Food Protection Program, “Food Inspections” dataset on the official open data portal. Source data as of Nov 3, 2026; imported by FoodCheck USA on Nov 5, 2026.