New York City's Health Department will start rating the city's street food vendors under the letter grade system, reports New York Post. Currently, street food vendors get inspected and are subject to fines, but do not have to display the results. Now, the city will inspect all 5,500 food carts and trucks authorized to operate in the city and will assign the "A," "B," and "C" sanitary grades that will need to be displayed. The new system will launch in December.
As part of the plan, the Health Department plans to attach GPS devices on all street food vendors so they can be located for inspections. The legal director of the Street Vendor Project says the group supports the grades but is strongly opposed to the GPS tracking system for fear that it might be used to target illegal immigrants. The Health Department says data collected will only be accessible to its staff, and it will take two years for all the grades to be awarded, similar to the rollout of restaurant grading in 2010, according to the report. Full Story
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