At a glance
CleanCleaver food safety systematic review results
What happened?
1problem found
1 problem found · 1 marked critical · Routine county inspection · Jan 7, 2026
Is that a lot?
Too few markets and grocery stores here for ranges. Colours show points.
Most markets and grocery stores here got 2 to 13 points taken off. Whole Foods Market - Grocery got about the same as most. That's from the last routine visit, on Dec 9, 2025.
Compared with 534 Santa Clara County markets and grocery stores. Each store's last routine inspection counts.
What was found out about Whole Foods Market - Grocery?
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- Marked critical: Food-contact surfaces not cleaned or sanitized right K14How to fixFix it
Source: County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health
We review Santa Clara County health data to make this report. We are not the County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health.
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Next: Food-contact surfaces not cleaned or sanitized rightThe county found: “Per operator cutting boards should be washed after each use. Cutting board cleaning logs observed noted that cutting…”
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Each fix step comes from the rule it names: Food Code 4-603.16, Food Code 3-304.14, Food Code 4-301.12.
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Clean first, then sanitize
From Food Code 4-603.16
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Inspections
From County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health · 3 inspections on record · Last checked Oct 6, 2026
The county visited 2 times in the last 12 months (2 routine).
Every visit
LatestJan 7, 2026Routine inspectionGreen placard
This one: Green placard, inspected Jan 7, 2026.
1 violation listed, 1 marked critical.
Critical (1)
Marked critical by County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health
Food-contact surfaces not cleaned or sanitized right
The department's words
K14 Food contact surfaces clean, sanitized
Per operator cutting boards should be washed after each use. Cutting board cleaning logs observed noted that cutting boards are washed once or twice a day. Cutting boards are not in a temperature controlled room and are kept on prep table behind display case when in use. Last time cutting boards were washed were at 7:30AM (about 5- 6 hours prior). [CA] Cutting boards should be washed, cleaned, and sanitized at a minimum of every 4 hours if in continuous use or as needed. For manual sanitization ensure surface of cutting board maintains contact with sanitizer solution of 100ppm chlorine for 30 seconds or 200ppm quat ammonia for 1 minutes [COS] Cutting boards were switched out with clean cutting boards and placed in back area to be washed in 3-comp sink.
Critical items are the ones most likely to make someone sick. This one comes first. Here's how a kitchen fixes it.
Food Code 4-602.11
How can a restaurant or home fix this?
Clean first, then sanitize
- 1. Scrape off food.
- 2. Wash with detergent and warm water.
- 3. Rinse off the soap (soap weakens sanitizer).
From Food Code 4-603.16
When to clean food-contact surfaces
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Are you Whole Foods Market - Grocery? Fix it
EarlierDec 9, 2025Routine inspection93 out of 100 (Green placard)
3 violations listed, 0 marked critical.
Not critical (3)
Wiping cloths left out of sanitizer
The department's words
K40 Wiping cloths: properly used, stored
Wiping cloth on preparation block for poultry observed to be store on top of block. [CA] Keep in use wiping clothes in sanitizer solution to prevent build up of bacteria when whipping.
Shellfish tags or fish freezing records missing
The department's words
K16 Compliance with shell stock tags, condition, display
Clams and mussels stocked on ice in display case stocked without tags [CA] Shellstock may be removed from the container in which they are received and displayed on drained ice or held in a display container with source properly identified.
Dish sink or dish machine not set up right
The department's words
K34 Warewash facilities: installed/maintained; test strips
Rinse compartment of 3-comp sink seafood department observed to be used to thaw raw shrimp. [CA] Use prep sink to for any food prep to prevent cross contamination. Wash, rinse, and sanitizer the middle rinse compartment of 3-comp sink prior to use for dishwashing.
EarlierDec 31, 2024Routine inspection100 out of 100 (Green placard)
No violations listed in the data.
Source: County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health. This is the department's data, not CleanCleaver's. See the department's full record (opens the department's site)
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Most people don't know what a normal result looks like for a place that's open every day. The ranges use each place's last routine inspection in this area. No other county is mixed in.
100 means the inspector found no problems. Santa Clara County takes points off for each problem. Big ones take off more.
The county posts a green, yellow or red placard after each inspection, and gives routine inspections a score. In the county's data, a routine inspection with no violations listed scored 100, and the score drops as violations are found. The county's page does not say which scores or findings give each color: ask the department.
- Inspection type
- Routine inspection
- Result
- Green placard
- Source
- County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health
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