- Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation, Packaging, and Segregation/Preventing Food and Ingredient Contamination (corrected on site)
Observation: Ready-to-eat food is not protected from cross contamination by separating them from raw animal foods. Several containers of raw beef, chicken and other raw foods were stored over uncovered vegetables and other RTE items.
Correction: Food shall be protected from cross contamination by separating raw animal foods during storage, preparation, holding, and display from: (a) Raw ready-to-eat food including other raw animal food such as fish for sushi or molluscan shellfish, or other raw ready-to-eat food such as fruits and vegetables, and (b) Cooked ready-to-eat food.
- Ice Used as Exterior Coolant, Prohibited as Ingredient/Preventing Contamination (corrected on site)
Observation: Ice used as a medium for cooling the exterior surfaces of food is also used as food. Observed beverages and candy inside of ice used for customers.
Correction: After use as a medium for cooling exterior surfaces of food such as melons or fish, packaged foods such as canned beverages, or cooling coils and tubes of equipment, ice may not be used as food. Ice that has been in contact with unsanitized surfaces or raw animal foods may contain pathogens and other contaminants. For example, ice used to store or display fish or packaged foods could become contaminated with microbes present on the fish or packaging. If this ice is then used as a food ingredient, it could contaminate the final product.
- Cooling Methods, Food containers
Observation: Food containers of rice and noodles were not arranged to provide maximum heat transfer and/or loosely covered, or uncovered while cooling.
Correction: When placed in cooling or cold holding equipment, food containers in which food is being cooled shall be: (1) Arranged in equipment to provide maximum heat transfer through the container walls
- Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces and Utensils/Time Temperature Control For Safety Food/Cleaning Frequency (corrected on site)
Observation: Surfaces of the can opener are not clean.
Correction: Except when dry cleaning methods are used as specified under section 4-603.11, surfaces of utensils and equipment contacting food that is not time/temperature control for safety food shall be cleaned: (1) At any time when contamination may have occurred
- Refuse/Frequency/Removal
Observation: Refuse, recyclables, and/or returnables are not removed at a frequency that minimizes objectionable odors and/or attraction/harborage of insects and rodents. Observed waste receptacle overflowing with trash. Items were also observed around receptacle.
Correction: Refuse, recyclables, and returnables shall be removed from the premises at a frequency that will minimize the development of objectionable odors and other conditions that attract or harbor insects and rodents. Refuse, recyclables, and returnable items, such as beverage cans and bottles, usually contain a residue of the original contents. Spillage from these containers soils receptacles and storage areas and becomes an attractant from insects, rodents, and other pests. The handling of these materials entails some of the same problems and solutions as the handling of garbage and refuse. Problems are minimized when all of these materials are removed from the premises at a reasonable frequency.
- Hand Drying Provision
Observation: Each handwashing sink is not provided with individual, disposable towels
Correction: a continuous towel system that supplies the user with a clean towel
- Intensity/Lighting
Observation: The light intensity is below 50 foot candles where a food employee is working with food. Observed 3 hood lights not functional.
Correction: The light intensity shall be at least 540 lux (50 foot candles) at a surface where a food employee is working with food or working with utensils or equipment such as knives, slicers, grinders, or saws where employee safety is a factor. Lighting levels are specified so that sufficient light is available to enable employees to perform certain functions such as reading labels
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