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Chicago violation 49: NON-FOOD/FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN

Official wording (Chicago Department of Public Health): NON-FOOD/FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN

In inspections since January 2021 this violation number was listed 14,387 times at 4,781 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
20211,840
20222,064
20232,457
20242,778
20252,974
20262,274

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.