A Kendall supermarket’s rodent poop, and food kept at bacteria-building temperatures
State inspectors found unsafe food for sale and evidence of rodents during an inspection Tuesday at a a Kendall Fresco y Mas.
This is the second failed Florida Department of Agriculture inspection in two weeks of a Fresco y Mas in the South Miami-Dade suburb at 7480 SW 117th Ave., although this one didn’t involve living things crawling in boxed food.
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Here are some of the problems Inspectors Wenndy Ayerdis and Julio Azpurua found:
▪ In the backroom, there wasn’t a “covered trash can available in the women’s restroom.”
▪ Also, in the backroom, there were “old, dry rodent droppings, dirt, dust and debris accumulated on the floor beneath the various shelving units.”
▪ A “food employee only rinsed fingertips at the handwash sink instead of actually washing hands.”
▪ A deli area food employee “wearing single-use gloves touched his face and continued handling utensils to serve food.”
▪ The deli area warewash sink ammonium sanitizer was too strong, measuring over 400 parts per million.
▪ In the deli area, the cleaned and sanitized trays “were found stacked on top of each other, wet-nested, not allowing water to drain.” That can breed bacteria.
▪ Speaking of breeding bacteria, the deli area’s reach-in cold unit was broken, so the milk, cream cheese and sliced ham sat at temperatures outside the safe range. The ham got refrigerated, Stop Sales hit the milk and cheese.
▪ Similarly, tamales heated that morning as well as ham-and-Swiss and provolone sandwiches made that morning weren’t properly chilled before being put in the retail reach-in cooler. That puts food unsafe for eating where customers could just grab and go.
This story was originally published November 15, 2023 at 11:00 AM.
