Mold on fruit and condensation dripping on meat at a Kendall supermarket
Fruit unfit to eat and coil condensation dripping on meat lowlighted a failed inspection at a West Kendall Fresco y Mas.
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspectors Margaret Alvarez and Wenndy Ayerdis can’t shut a grocer down for the worst inspection result as Department of Business & Professional regulation restaurant inspectors can.
But they can put Stop Sales on food and Stop Use Orders on equipment and areas. Enough of those and staying open might not be profitable or possible. Both kinds of orders got dropped on Wednesday’s visit to 12107 SW 15nd St.
In the food service area, they saw “mold-like growth on whole oranges stored inside the walk-in cooler.” Stop Sale on those oranges.
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In the meat department, “raw beef chunks in the meat display cooler were found in contact with water leaking from the unit’s condensing coils.” Stop Sale on 5 pounds of beef chunks, and trashed.
Also, a “condensing unit was leaking inside the meat display cooler unit where unpackaged food is displayed.” Also in the meat department, there was “heavy dust accumulation on the air conditioning unit fan guard.”
In the food service and meat areas, “food employees did not wash hands between entering and exiting food preparation areas and prior to donning gloves to handle food items.”
The seafood area ice machine had “black, mold-like grime encrusted on the interior...”
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Those foam trays usually used for meat and poultry packing should stay in the packaging until used. That wasn’t the case with some on shelves over a food prep table.
When someone mentions “no overhead,” they usually don’t mean what the inspectors saw in the the produce section.
“No overhead protection installed above preparation tables, warewash sink, and handwash sink where processing takes place.”
If the store doesn’t get something overhead by Aug. 29, a Stop Use Order could come crashing down on the area and all the equipment in the area.
