Madison and Dane County health inspections: restaurants, retail food, pools, lodging, tattoo
Wisconsin · Health inspections
- Published by
- Public Health Madison & Dane County (PHMDC)
- Official source
- What's covered
- Every establishment PHMDC licenses and inspects in the City of Madison and Dane County: restaurants, retail food stores, mobile food, farmers markets, pools, hotels/motels, bed and breakfasts, tattoo and body piercing.
- History
- From 2012
- How often we sync
- Establishment list weekly (two independent query sets must agree); inspection history read nightly, each establishment at least monthly, one request every two seconds.
- Last complete sync
- Records
- 3,819 establishments
- 339 establishments history read
- 2,531 inspections
- 4,091 violations
- How we get it
- Public web pages read one at a time (form postbacks).
- Terms
- Public records published by PHMDC. robots.txt does not disallow /HealthInspections/ (checked 2026-10-01). No terms of use found.
- Attribution
- Source: Public Health Madison & Dane County.
Known gaps
- Inspection history starts in 2012.
- Campgrounds and rec-ed camps in Dane County are not in this system.
- Inspection pages have no permanent public links; we link to PHMDC's search page.
How violation severity is mapped
Every cited violation is filed as serious, non-serious or unknown. Unknown is never counted as a clean record.
| The source says | We file it as | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Listed under 'Priority (CDC Risk Factor) Violations' | serious | PHMDC's own filter for the CDC foodborne-illness risk factors |
| Listed only under 'All Violations' | non-serious |
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