In 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration noted that Florida's Hotel and Restaurant Regulation program did not discourage repeat violations. This problem has not been resolved.
The program could improve its effectiveness and possibly reduce costs by adopting a risk-based inspection system and targeting its resources to those food and lodging establishments that pose the greatest public health risk.
Weaknesses in the program's management information system, management turnover, and the lack of an effective performance assessment system have contributed to these problems.

Division of Hotels and Restaurants Improves Operations and Makes Progress in Meeting Inspection Goals
Report 07-41 October 2007
Division of Hotels and Restaurants Improves Operations But Not Meeting Inspection Goals
Report 05-51 November 2005
Follow-Up Report on Hotel and Restaurant Regulation
Report 98-15 October 1998

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