Hawaii's Food Safety Goes Dark: Critical Lapse In Public Health Transparency

Hawaii’s Food Safety Goes Dark: Critical Lapse In Public Health Transparency

Following previous red-placards we reported, this important Hawaii visitor and resident information has gone missing. How could that even be?

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23 thoughts on “Hawaii’s Food Safety Goes Dark: Critical Lapse In Public Health Transparency”

  1. Just another negative. Hey nothing in Hawaii is seldom free. IMO if you want a cheap bite to eat go to Costco where a hotdog and soft drink is $1.50 at the food court. Even if you have to initiate a membership (60) a year you are way ahead. Four Hotdogs and drink $6 vs fast food at 20 dollars per person. Do the math. IMO if you really want to know go to trip advisor or any resource and look at the customer reviews of the restaurant. The rich and wealthy don’t dine where governor Greens so called low budget ,entry level tourist, would go. Maybe that’s part of the plan to weed out low end tourists. Any recommendations Rob or Jeff? Budget low-High. Any connections with Gordon Ramsay? Problem Solved.

    1. Hi Don.

      Thanks for asking. We tend to like the farmers markets and don’t head towards Costco food court. Restaurant reviews are not our stock in trade, but if you have any specific questions please ask away and someone will probably lend a hand.

      Aloha.

      1. Found another solution. Get a hold of Duwayne Chapman (Dog the Bounty Hunter) on Ohau or his Colorado ranch and tell him
        There needs to be a fix for red carded restaurant reports. Hunt down Gordon Ramsay and see if he can do a Kitchen Nightmares Hawaii edition Pronto. If Duwayne claims Hawaii is the closest thing to heaven then the food should be rated the same. By the way farmers markets are way healthy no high starch,grease,or salt. Great recommendation.

  2. It seems that a temp site could be set up where the lists that can be obtained via email request are attached in pdf format each day. Who would do this would be an assigned employee from Heath Dept or a temp contractor. Just my initial thought

  3. Maybe the experience of tainted food, ecolli, listeria,and other stomach illnesses will surely wreck or shorten some tourists stay. What flip a coin on safe or unsafe to eat without knowing the food health departments rating of a restaurant. IMO send the state higher ups in blindfolded first and let them test the food. If non come out with white or green faces then I guess it could be considered safe. I bet after a few times the Heath department will surely be in operation quickly and gladly reporting. Problem solved. No tourist need to get sick and remember that kind of experience.

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    1. Are there major foodborne illnesses reported across the islands???

      That said, no prob with using the state politicians as songbirds in every case where they have screwed the Hawaiian people and visitors…

      I really dont think most people have any idea of the food safety ratings of most restaurants in HI–they come, they eat, they love the food, they pay a Ridiculous food bill, and then walk out never have any idea how sanitary (or not) the food prep conditions were.

      Question: do we even need a Hawaiian food health department at all?

      1. Hi Peterparker22.

        Perhaps you’re joking. Having gotten sick at restaurants in Hawaii multiple times, we can say absolutely that we need it, and have been grateful for their helpful follow-up.

        Aloha.

  4. Face it, we’re a third world banana (maybe the wrong word since we can’t grow bananas that cost less than $1.59 a pound) republic masquerading as a legitimate state… It’s only going to get worse too as runaway costs and prices destroy the economic activities not already done in by our insane regulations…

    Best Regards

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  5. Thank you, Beat of Hawaii, for bringing this to light! I consider myself pretty diligent about following local news, and yet you were the only source of this information. My husband and I recently had the upsetting experience of eating at a restaurant in Kapolei and seeing a roach crawl across the table during dinner. I’d love to be able to check the restaurant’s inspection record, but I guess DOH doesn’t want me to be able to do that easily, huh?

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  6. Hawaii is certainly Hawaii’s worst enemy, where else can anyone screw up this badly and retain their employment? Ready accessibility via internet lookup is what is expected and acceptable, calling is Not. What are they hiding? With the site down it certainly shouldn’t be that difficult to make changes to results. I believe that we may never be certain what has transpired during the outage. I do find it interesting that very few people knew about it.

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