In a recent USPH inspection the cruise ship Costa Luminosa scored perfect 100 points. The surprise inspection was conducted on 14 October we the cruise ship was docked in San Francisco, Costa Luminosa is currently on a 98-day world voyage visiting 39 port on five continents. 

As part of the Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP), USPH inspection was introduced in the early 1970s and involves all ships that stop in a US port. They are unannounced events and are carried out by officials from the USPHS (United States Public Health Service) twice a year. The score, on a scale from 1 to 100, is assigned on the basis of a checklist with some 48 areas of assessment encompassing hygiene and sanitation of food (from storage to preparation), water, shipboard personnel and the ship as a whole.

This is the 13th time that the Costa Cruises fleet has received maximum marks from the CDC inspectors.

The first ship to obtain the perfect 100 was actually the Costa Atlantica in 2001, 2005, 2009, 2010,

2011 and 2012; meanwhile the Costa Mediterranea, obtained the top score in 2004, 2005 and 2006;

Costa Deliziosa obtained the “perfect score” in an inspection held on 2 February 2012 at Honolulu, while

Costa Luminosa in December 2013 and December 2014.