• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 13, 2015 →
• address555 Washington St, Dorchester 02124

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Is Essential Body Herbs clean?

Essential Body Herbs is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 13, 2015. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Essential Body Herbs?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 13, 2015. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

Essential Body Herbs inspection and administrative history

Essential Body Herbs has 7 inspections on record going back to April 29, 2010.

Essential Body Herbs vs Dorchester

Dorchester runs 85% clean across 525 tracked restaurants — 429 clean, 33 mid, 44 cooked.

Against the 525 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.

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How Boston grades restaurants

Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated October 13, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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