Name: Baja Fresh Mexican Grill
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 290 N Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
License #: 1620512
Total inspections: 3
Last inspection: 09/15/2014
Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. In dry storage scooping rice with plastic cup **Warning**
Basic - Equipment in poor repair. 3 doors and 3 drawers reach in cooler in cook line found in 60°f do not use until able to maintain 41°f or below **Warning**
Basic - Ice scoop handle in contact with ice. In wait station **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
High Priority - Cooked rice/pasta cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Rice found in 80°f under no temperature control. Rice made at 11am .see stop sale . Advised manager to use time as a public health control **Warning**
High Priority - Dishwasher handled soiled dishes or utensils and then handled clean dishes or utensils without washing hands. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
High Priority - Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands - food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Employee in cook line touching sushi rice with only 1 glove. Immediately washed hands and put on gloves **Warning**
High Priority - Nonexempt fish offered raw or undercooked has not undergone proper parasite destruction. Fish must be fully cooked or discarded. Sashimi items: raw salmon ,raw tilapia ,yellow tail snapper **Warning**
High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Shrimp,beef ,chicken all found in 60°f in reach in cooler in cook line not maintaing proper temperature of 41°f or below items placed under ice to bring temperature control to 41°or below **Warning**
High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food controlled by time and required to be marked with the use by time is not marked and the required time of disposal cannot be determined. See stop sale. Sushi rice found in 80°f over 4 hours made at 11am **Warning**
High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. See stop sale. For sushi rice found in 80°f in front counter area **Warning**
Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use due to items stored in the sink. In cook line hand wash sink **Warning**
Intermediate - No written procedures available for use of time as a public health control to hold potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food. For sushi rice **Warning**
Intermediate - Proof of required state approved employee training not available for some employees. To order approved program food safety material, call DBPR's contracted provider: Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association (SafeStaff) 866-372-7233. **Warning**
07/14/2014
Routine - Food
Warning Issued
Basic - Equipment in poor repair. 3 doors reach in cooler/flip top cooler TRUE in cook line next to hand sink in 60°f do not use until maintains 41°f or below
Basic - No Heimlich maneuver/choking sign posted.
Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled. Red cleaner next to 3 compartment sink
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