- Critical: Hands - When to Wash*
Observation: A food employee failed to wash his or her hands before engaging in food preparation, after touching bare human body parts, after coughing, sneezing, eating, after handling soiled utensils or after engaging in any activity which may have contaminated his/her hands.
Correction: Instruct food employees to clean their hands and exposed portions of their arms immediately before engaging in food preparation including working with exposed food, clean equipment and utensils, and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles and during food preparation, as often as necessary to remove soil and contamination and to prevent cross contamination when changing task.
- Critical: Hands - Preventing Contamination from Hands* (corrected on site)
Observation: Employees observed handling ready-to-eat (RTE) food with their bare hands.
Correction: Provide suitable utensils such as deli tissue, spatulas, tongs, single-use gloves, or dispensing equipment to handle RTE food to prevent contamination from hands.
- Cloths - Wiping Cloths - Use Limitation (repeated violation)
Observation: Wiping cloths improperly stored between use.
Correction: Ensure wet wiping cloths are stored in a chemical sanitizer at the proper concentration between use.
- Critical: Date Marking - Ready-to-Eat - Potentially Hazardous Food - Date Marking* (repeated violation)
Observation: The prepared ready-to-eat (RTE) @FOOD@ in the refrigeration unit is not properly dated for disposition.
Correction: Mark the name and "consume by" date on the container of RTE foods at the time of preparation if the food is to be held for more than 24 hours. If the food is held at 41°F or below the food shall be served or sold within 7 calendar days. Some harmful bacteria continue to grow even at refrigeration temperatures so limiting the amount of time in storage limits the amount of growth allowed for these bacteria.
- Handwashing - Using a Handwashing Lavatory - No Other Purpose
Observation: The handwash station at the @LOCATION@ is being used for purposes other than washing hands.
Correction: The handwash facility identified above is to be used for washing hands only
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03/21/2016 | Routine | |
- Handwashing - Using a Handwashing Lavatory (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: Hand washing sink had a tray laying over the top of it.
Correction: Keep hand sink accessible at all times to encourage employees to wash hands
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10/14/2015 | Routine | |
- Cloths - Wiping Cloths - Use Limitation
Observation: wiping cloths were laying on countertops.
Correction: Wiping cloths need to be held in sanitizing solution in order to decrease bacterial growth on cloths
- Critical: Date Marking - Ready-to-Eat - Potentially Hazardous Food - Date Marking* (repeated violation)
Observation: No date marking on foods in walk in refrigerator
Correction: RTE foods held in walk in for more than 24 hours have to be marked with the date prepared or the date of discard
- Critical: Warewashing - Manual & Mechanical Warewashing Equipment, Chemical Sanitization - Temperature, pH, Concentration & Hardness* (repeated violation)
Observation: Dishwasher had no sanitizer running through machine
Correction: repair man was called. Bleach sanitizer needs to read 50-100ppm
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06/30/2015 | Routine | |
- Critical: Date Marking - Ready-to-Eat - Potentially Hazardous Food - Date Marking* (corrected on site)
Observation: RTE foods in walk in are not dated with original date prepared or date food needs to be discarded.
Correction: Date RTE foods with date prepared or 7 days from preparation to be discarded.
- Critical: Warewashing - Manual & Mechanical Warewashing Equipment, Chemical Sanitization - Temperature, pH, Concentration & Hardness* (corrected on site)
Observation: no chemical sanitizer being used in dishwasher
Correction: call for repair of machine. Use 3 compartment sink to sanitize dishes until machine is fixed
- Handwashing - Using a Handwashing Lavatory (corrected on site)
Observation: hand sink was covered with tray and water was turned off to hand sink
Correction: keep hand sink clear and accessible to be used for hand washing purposes only. Keep water on for use.
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11/18/2014 | Routine | |
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