Two San Francisco health inspectors have been charged with taking payments to falsify results.

Both Sanders and Stewart are former employees of the city Public Health Department. Each took hundreds of bribes of $100 to $200 apiece from restaurant managers and owners in 2007 and 2008 in exchange for allowing them to pass their food safety manager exams, District Attorney George Gascón said.

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Gascón said the managers and owners who allegedly bribed Stewart and Sanders would not be prosecuted because many of them thought the payments were legitimate fees. For many of the managers and owners, English was their second language, the district attorney said.

“We believe that the greater culpability goes to the public employees,” Gascón said.

That policy, of course, encourages the managers and owners to turn in corrupt inspectors.