A Miami area Walmart won’t be able to get new food if it doesn’t deal with the roaches
Roaches and ants ran so strongly in a South Miami-Dade Walmart grocery during a state inspection last week that the store is under threat of not being allowed to receive new food.
The Walmart Neighborhood Market at 14325 SW 268th St. in Naranja failed a Florida Department of Agriculture inspection on Feb. 23. Unlike restaurants that fail inspection, groceries, supermarkets, convenience stores and food storage places that fail inspection can remain open. But inspectors can put Stop Use Orders on areas or equipment they find with vermin, with excessive filth or that simply don’t work.
Inspector Yuko Kim dropped Stop Use Orders on a processing/repacking table and, in the bakery area, a repacking area with open foods and a large, standing bread oven.
“If evidence of pest infestation is observed on the next inspection, a Stop-Use Order will be issued on all receiving areas of the establishment and the establishment will no longer be allowed to receive additional food items,” Kim wrote, “a Stop-Use Order of all processing equipment (if applicable) will be issued, and a Stop-Sale Order of all exposed food items (if applicable) will be issued until the infestation is eradicated.”
When listing violations, Kim noted the living problems in the bakery area.
“Observed live, small roaches crawling on the floor around and under large, standing bread oven. Stop Use Order issued...” and “Bakery processing area, small ants observed crawling on floor around the handwash sink by the entrance door.”
Inspector Kim had other problems with the bakery area.
“Racks of breads stored next to the prep table, uncovered.”
In the bakery processing area, “baking pans, way bread pans and rolling racks are encrusted in grease and carbon buildup” and “feather duster stored on a shelf with food items on a rack in front of a prep table.”
In the deli area, Inspector Kim found, “meat and cheese slicers in use more than four hours without going through the proper cleaning procedures.”
Also, a food employee did “multiple tasks/working with open foods and touching face and mouth area and continuing to work with the same gloves.”
One of the handwash sinks didn’t have paper towels.
In the backroom, “floors found with an accumulation of dust and dirt throughout.”
