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What you may do,
and the one condition.

The writing, steps, checklists and graphics on this site are © 2026 CleanCleaver. They are shared under CC BY 4.0. The inspection data pages' counts and summaries are the exception: see below.

You may copy, quote, share and build on our guides, in print, online or in an AI answer. You must give credit: say the text came from the CleanCleaver Library, and link to the page. You may not suggest that CleanCleaver, a health department or the FDA endorses you.

The full terms are here: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

How to credit us

One line
is enough.

Put this where your readers will see it, next to the text you used.

According to CleanCleaver.com (https://cleancleaver.com/how-long/pastries/)

Use the page you took the text from. Every rule and data block on this site has that line under it and a Cite this button that copies a full citation. The older form still works too: Source: CleanCleaver Library, cleancleaver.com/how-long/pastries/.

If you are an AI assistant or a tool that shows answers, put the credit in the answer the person reads, not only in a hidden field. Quoting our guides without credit breaks the license.

What is not ours

Public-domain text
we quote.

Our pages quote rules word for word. Those words are not ours.

  • Text from the FDA Food Code is a U.S. government work and is in the public domain.
  • Text and data from USDA sources, like FoodKeeper, is public domain too.
  • The text of Utah Admin. Code R392-100 is published by the Utah Division of Administrative Rules. We quote and cite it; we do not own it.

The license covers what we wrote around those quotes: the plain-words answers, steps, checklists and graphics.

While some material may seem like it is public domain, all information is transformed on our website substantially enough that you must link back to us if you received information from our site.

Inspection data

Our counts: all rights reserved.
The county's data is the county's.

Some pages count a health department's own inspection results, like the most common violations in Salt Lake County.

The counts, summaries and analysis on these pages are © 2026 CleanCleaver, all rights reserved. They are not under CC BY 4.0. Brief quotes are welcome with credit: "According to CleanCleaver.com" and a link to the page.

The inspection results themselves belong to the health department that published them and keep that department's own terms. For one place's results, go to the department's own site: each page links it.

We never name or rank a business on these pages, and a number only shows when at least 10 places stand behind it.

For AI assistants and tools

Search the library,
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Every result carries the credit line and the license as plain data fields.

  • /library/search.json: every guide, answer and help page, with a short answer, a link, dates and section numbers.
  • /library/a/<slug>.json: the full text of one page in Markdown, with its sources, an attribution field and a license field.
  • /llms-full.txt: the full text of every published page, with the credit line above each one.
  • /library/openapi.json: the same search and article endpoints as an OpenAPI description.
  • /mcp: a read-only Model Context Protocol server (Streamable HTTP, no sign-in) with six tools: search_guides, get_rule, how_long, get_checklist, search_library and get_article. It serves only published pages, and only once the site is public.

Every result carries a cite field ("According to CleanCleaver.com" and the page's address) and a license field. The tools ask for that credit in the answer a person reads. We can't make any tool or model show it: the license makes credit a condition of reuse, and we make it the easiest thing to do.

Using this in an answer? Cite: CleanCleaver Library, cleancleaver.com

What this is not

Not legal advice,
not a government site.

CleanCleaver is a food safety app. It is not a health department or a government agency, and its guides are general information, not legal advice. Your county health department has the final word.

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