Moldy bread. A crusty mixer. Here’s what else inspectors found at a Broward bakery
Inspectors shut down all food processing and use of all food equipment at a Lauderdale Lakes bakery for three days after a visit last week.
Most of the equipment at Sandy’s Bakery, 3429 W. Oakland Park Blvd., got released from Stop Use Order jail on Friday. Three days earlier, a March 4 visit by several Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspectors revealed roaches and other living things you don’t want to see in a bakery — mold.
READ MORE: Pigs feet among the piles of Miami supermarket food that got trashed
▪ In the kitchen, “Bread on a shelf next to the food service area had a mold-like substance.” Stop Sale on the bread of the house.
▪ Live roaches ran around both kitchen reach-in coolers, bringing Stop Sales down on all the open food in the area and Stop Use Orders on all food processing in the kitchen and food service areas as well as all food equipment.
▪ No hot water at the backroom restroom sink means a) No proper hand-washing and b) Sandy’s has until April 3 to get hot running water into that restroom.
▪ Those who washed hands at the food service area handwash sink didn’t have a way to dry them.
▪ A kitchen employee washed a ladle at the three-compartment sink, but didn’t sanitize it. Then again, as noted elsewhere on the inspection, “No sanitizer was available at the establishment.”
▪ The kitchen shelving had “a buildup of food debris and grease accumulation.”
▪ The kitchen mixer by a bread rack hadn’t been cleaned after being used the day before and had “encrusted food residue.” That drew the one Stop Use Order that remains in effect at Sandy’s.
▪ “Food and grease debris buildup under the ovens and shelves” in the kitchen.
▪ “Food and grease debris build up under equipment” in the food service area.
▪ “Debris buildup on the floors throughout” the storage area.
▪ The reach-in cooler’s ambient temperature of 47 degrees — stated job: keep food at or under 41 degrees — wasn’t a matter of calibration but malfunction. The cooler got hit with a Stop Use Order and the empanadas mixture, raw beef, raw fish and raw turkey sitting in it since the previous day got smacked with Stop Sales.
▪ The cow’s foot on the steam table measured 114 degrees, right in the trash zone above 41 degrees and under 135 degrees. Appropriately, the foot got booted into the trash.
