Sutter County commercial kitchen compliance

Sutter County (CA) operates a Green/Yellow/Red color-coded placard program enforced under the California Retail Food Code by the Sutter County Environmental Health Division (within the Sutter County Development Services Department). Placard determination is based on the count and severity of major violations observed during inspection, with major violations defined as critical risk factor violations per the CDC five risk factors framework. Sutter County does not publish a numeric score; placard color is the operative display. Green = PASS (no more than one major violation, and the major violation is mitigated or corrected during the inspection). Yellow = CONDITIONAL PASS (two or more major violations corrected during the inspection, OR a major violation that cannot be corrected during the inspection). Red = CLOSURE (imminent health hazard requiring immediate closure of the facility). Minor violations are documented as "non-sanitary conditions for the preparation of food" that do not constitute an imminent hazard. Public inspection reports are posted online with a cutoff of August 8, 2007 for archive availability; the close temporal proximity to Sacramento County's January 2007 placard launch suggests Sutter adopted the placard model in the same Sacramento Valley regional wave (Sacramento 2007 originator -> Butte 2014 -> Yolo 2017 -> Sutter, in inferred order).