France has launched an app that lets you check food inspection results for restaurants, stores, producers—potentially the whole food chain—from your phone.
The app, created by the French government, is called Alim’Confiance, and lists ratings from March 1, 2017 on, in the form of four icons that represent ratings from Very Satisfactory to Satisfactory to Needs Correction to Needs Urgent Correction. Not all establishments are in the system yet, but will be added as they are rated.
Establishments that totally fail the inspection won’t appear in the app; they will be closed immediately and only appear in the app when they meet the minimum. The ratings, the official documents point out, relate only to sanitation; it will still be possible to eat a very bad, but very clean meal.
The ratings will eventually be available on computers as well, but for now, they are only available for iOS, Android and Windows phone systems (and, Gumbo found, only on phones in France or with French phone numbers).
