An Oregon Department of Agriculture food safety specialist conducts an inspection at a grocery store.

Food safety inspections of Oregon grocery stores remain below pre-pandemic levels, with state regulators now completing 19% fewer monthly reviews than before COVID-19 upended regular inspections.

And the numbers from the first half of 2022 represent an improvement from the past two years, when regulators completed even fewer reviews.

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