According to records obtained from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Bowdoin College Dining Service has an almost-perfect record for sanitation and cleanliness.
The only violation reported by inspectors was in Moulton Union in 2003. The violation resulted from an ice cube scoop being placed on the wrong surface, Director of Dining and Bookstore Services Mary Lou Kennedy said.
The health inspectors "come in and they talk to the managers after they do their review and say, 'Boy, I wish all of our inspections were this easy to do. For food areas we go into, yours are the cleanest we've ever been in,'" Kennedy said.
Bowdoin's dining service is ranked by the Princeton Review as having the best campus food of any college or university in the nation.