{
 "title": "Toronto food premises with conditional passes, October 2026: 156 conditional, 2 closed",
 "headline": "Toronto Public Health gave 156 conditional passes and closed 2 food premises in 2,458 inspections from October 1–26, 2026; cleaning and upkeep of rooms, non-food surfaces and equipment was the problem cited most often in those inspections, followed by pest control (73).",
 "period_start": "2026-10-01",
 "period_end": "2026-10-26",
 "period_label": "October 1–26, 2026",
 "period_note": "Inspections Toronto Public Health recorded from October 1–26, 2026 in the DineSafe open data. The city updates DineSafe several times a week; the latest inspection in the file when this report was built was dated October 26, 2026.",
 "stats": [
  [
   "2,458",
   "inspections of 2,326 food premises, October 1–26, 2026"
  ],
  [
   "156",
   "conditional passes (6% of inspections)"
  ],
  [
   "2",
   "closure orders"
  ],
  [
   "71",
   "inspections that found a crucial infraction"
  ]
 ],
 "summary": [
  "Toronto Public Health recorded 2,458 inspections of 2,326 food premises from October 1–26, 2026. 2,300 passed, 156 received a conditional pass (6%) and 2 were closed.",
  "In the 158 inspections that ended in a conditional pass or a closure, the most cited problem category was cleaning and upkeep of rooms, non-food surfaces and equipment (103 inspections), followed by pest control (73), employee hygiene and handwashing (65).",
  "A conditional pass means the premises may stay open but must fix significant problems before a re-inspection, usually within 24 to 48 hours. A closure order stays in place until the premises passes a re-inspection, so a premises closed this month may already have reopened; DineSafe shows its current status."
 ],
 "method": "One inspection is one premises on one inspection date, with the status DineSafe gives it (Pass, Conditional Pass or Closed). An inspection is counted once under each infraction category it cites, so category counts add up to more than the number of inspections. Category names are DineSafe's deficiency categories in plain words. Dates from October 1–26, 2026.",
 "source": {
  "name": "City of Toronto, DineSafe (Toronto Public Health food premises inspections, open data)",
  "url": "https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/dinesafe/",
  "licence": "Open Government Licence – Toronto",
  "licence_url": "https://open.toronto.ca/open-data-license/"
 },
 "chart": {
  "title": "Problems behind conditional passes and closures, October 1–26, 2026",
  "rows": [
   {
    "label": "Cleaning and upkeep of rooms, non-food surfaces and equipment",
    "value": 103
   },
   {
    "label": "Pest control",
    "value": 73
   },
   {
    "label": "Employee hygiene and handwashing",
    "value": 65
   },
   {
    "label": "Cleaning of food-contact surfaces and equipment",
    "value": 59
   },
   {
    "label": "Food protected from contamination",
    "value": 59
   },
   {
    "label": "Food temperature control",
    "value": 35
   },
   {
    "label": "Administrative requirements",
    "value": 16
   },
   {
    "label": "Washrooms and sanitary facilities",
    "value": 13
   }
  ]
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every infraction category",
  "columns": [
   "Infraction category",
   "Inspections citing it",
   "In conditional passes",
   "In closures"
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "Cleaning and upkeep of rooms, non-food surfaces and equipment",
    "865",
    "101",
    "2"
   ],
   [
    "Employee hygiene and handwashing",
    "169",
    "65",
    "0"
   ],
   [
    "Cleaning of food-contact surfaces and equipment",
    "169",
    "58",
    "1"
   ],
   [
    "Administrative requirements",
    "141",
    "16",
    "0"
   ],
   [
    "Food protected from contamination",
    "104",
    "58",
    "1"
   ],
   [
    "Pest control",
    "73",
    "71",
    "2"
   ],
   [
    "Washrooms and sanitary facilities",
    "42",
    "13",
    "0"
   ],
   [
    "Waste storage and removal",
    "36",
    "12",
    "0"
   ],
   [
    "Food temperature control",
    "35",
    "35",
    "0"
   ],
   [
    "Conditions for closure",
    "2",
    "0",
    "2"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "publisher": "A3E Ecosystem Inc.",
 "url": "https://inspections.a3eecosystem.com/reports/2026-10/",
 "published": "2026-10-27",
 "updated": "2026-10-27",
 "licence_note": "Free to quote or republish with a link to https://inspections.a3eecosystem.com/reports/2026-10/"
}