Old food, flies, ‘mold-like substances’ cause a Broward Winn-Dixie to fail inspection
Dangerously warm cheese and fruit, “mold-like” substances, flies and other food safety violations befouled the state inspection of a Fort Lauderdale Winn-Dixie this week.
This is the third inspection since 2019 for the store at 3260 Davie Blvd., but the first failure.
Unlike the case with restaurants, which are inspected by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, a supermarket, grocery, food storage facility or commercial bakery failing a Department of Agriculture inspection doesn’t get closed. Parts of the establishment can be declared unfit for use by Stop Use Orders.
Similar to the Miami-Dade Publix that failed inspection last week, Inspector Yuko Kim didn’t drop any Stop Use Orders on Monday, but saw quite enough to require a re-inspection of this Winn-Dixie by May 16.
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Such as, “numerous flying insects” in the deli area and backrooom and “multiple flying insects” in the seafood and produce areas. Also, outside the door separating the produce area from the seafood area, Inspector Kim saw an “accumulation of dead, flying insects on an insect electrocution device.”
On the other side of that door, in the seafood area, there was a “black/brown mold-like substance found near the ice chute inside the ice machine.” That’s a similar description to the “black, mold-like buildup” on the baseboards of the meat area processing room.
Also in the meat area, a grinder was “found with old meat debris on the auger, connecting parts and inside the hopper.” Employees using the grinder didn’t have a handwash sink in the walk-in cooler, where the meat grinder was used.
In the backroom, two pallets of food labled and shipped as frozen, “including ice cream and prepackaged breakfast items, had been accepted but were received melted and defrosted.”
Packages of watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew cut and wrapped in the store measured above 41 degrees, the maximum to keep cold storage food from being bacteria incubators. Inspector Kim found the same problem with mozzarella, blue cheese, goat cheese, sliced swiss cheese and cheese spreads in front of the deli area.
All of the above food got trashed.
This story was originally published May 7, 2022 at 3:21 PM.
