Pastelitos and croquetas trashed among inspection issues at a Pinecrest Bakery
Pastelitos, croquetas and empanadas went from the display case to the garbage during a failed inspection Monday at a West Miami-Dade Pinecrest Bakery.
Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services inspectors Margaret Alvarez and Wenndy Ayerdis found several other violations at 14766 SW 56th St.
Unlike inspectors of restaurants, the consumer services inspectors can’t close a place down for a failed inspection. In addition to Stop Sale Orders, they can drop Stop Use Orders on equipment or areas. Enough of those can take the profitability out of the operation.
Inspectors Alvarez and Ayerdis didn’t have to use any Stop Use Orders, but did have to drop a few Stop Sales.
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In the kitchen area, “multiple small, flying insects were found around the processing, ware washing and storage areas.”
At the service counter, where the packaged pastelitos should have been at 135 degrees or above, cheese pastelitos and meat pastelitos measured 80 degrees. Stop Sales and Stop Sale. Basura.
“Multiple food items in the display holding unit ... were not discarded after exceeding the 4 hour time limit.” This brought a Stop Sale monsoon on ham croquetas, cheese pastelitos, meat pastelitos, ham and cheese pastelitos, cheese tequenos, cheese bread, chicken empanadas and meat empanadas.
A “food employee touched washed oranges with bare hands when placing into the orange juice machine to make juice for a customer.” Stop Sale on the orange juice, the other oranges got washed and the orange juice machine got washed, rinsed and sanitized.
Washed oranges sitting in a container next to the orange juice machine weren’t covered.
Food service and kitchen employees didn’t wash their hands “between entering and exiting the food preparation area and prior to donning gloves to handle food items.”
Also in the kitchen and food service area, “food employees were not wearing hair restraints while engaged in open food handling.”
And the sanitizer at the warewash sink, which should’ve been 200 parts per million, at most, measured a soupy 500 ppm.
There will be a re-inspection on or before Nov. 3.
