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Show County sanitation down I Sanitation precautions in Iron County eating establishments are "inadequate" on the average, according ac-cording to a recent survey conducted by the State Division of Health. The survey ranked restaurants, school lunch facilities and taverns according to a demerit system. Iron, along with Beaver County, received the inadequate ranking - 40 - 50 demerits -while other counties in the Southwestern South-western District Health Department, Washington, Garfield, and Kane received "worse than inadequate," with demerits of 50 or more on the average. Officials of the State Health Department said factors involved in poor eating establishment sanitation are: large turnover in food handling personnel; poor or no training for food handlers; community wide problems such as unapproved culinary water supplies; poor solid waster disposal and collection practices; and a "mushrooming population" and higher per capita number of food service establishments than the national average. Utah on the whole had a ranking of 32 demerits-marginal-while the national average is 50. The demerit system is used nationally. |