Posted: July 8th, 2011 - 11:20am by Doug Powell

Maricopa County's Environmental Services Dept. (that’s where Phoenix, Arizona, is) has adopted a new health inspection system.

Operations Supervisor Jaime Vinaras told KPHO that they no longer use terms like 'major' or 'minor violations.'

Instead, they're putting potential health problems into three categories:
*Priority item.
*Priority foundation.
*Core item.

However, when you look up restaurants on the county's web site, www.maricopa.gov , the violations are listed as 'risk factors' and 'good retail practices.'