Jul 9, 2025
Routine
4-1A - food separated and protected
Regulation: 511-6-1.04(4)(c)1(i)(ii)(iii)(v)(vi)(vii)(viii) - packaged & unpackaged food separation, packaging, and segregation (p, c)
Observed raw steak and shrimp stored over RTE rice and lemons in RIC in main kitchen. COS:PIC moved raw items in appropriate order.
511-6-1.04(4)(c)1(i)(ii)(iii)(v)(vi)(vii)(viii) - Packaged & Unpackaged Food Separation, Packaging, and Segregation (P, C) (c) Packaged and Unpackaged Food - Separation, Packaging, and Segregation.
- Food shall be protected from cross contamination by:
(i) Except as specified in paragraph (i)(IV) of this subsection, separating raw animal foods during storage, preparation, holding, and display from:
(I) Raw ready-to-eat food including other raw animal food such as fish for sushi or molluscan shellfish, or other raw ready-to-eat food such as fruits and vegetables, P and
(II) Cooked ready-to-eat food; and P
(III) Fruits and vegetables before they are washed; P
(IV) Frozen, commercially processed and packaged raw animal food may be stored or displayed with or above frozen, commercially processed and packaged, ready-to-eat food.
(ii) Except when combined as ingredients, separating types of raw animal foods from each other such as beef, fish, lamb, pork, and poultry during storage, preparation, holding, and display by:
(I) Using separate equipment for each type, P or
(II) Arranging each type of food in equipment so that cross contamination of one type with another is prevented, P and
(III) Preparing each type of food at different times or in separate areas; P
(iii) Cleaning and sanitizing equipment and utensils;
(v) Cleaning hermetically sealed containers of food of visible soil before opening;
(vi) Protecting food containers that are received packaged together in a case or overwrap from cuts when the case or overwrap is opened;
(vii) Storing damaged, spoiled, or recalled food being held in the food service establishment separate from food, equipment, utensils, linens and single-service and single-use articles; or
(viii) Separating fruits and vegetables, before they are washed from ready-to-eat food.
14B - utensils, equipment and linens: properly stored, dried, handled
Regulation: 511-6-1.05(10)(a) - equipment & utensils, air-drying required (c)
Observed multiple dishes stacked together while wet over 3C in main kitchen. CA: Advised PIC to allow dishes to fully air dry before stacking together.
511-6-1.05(10)(a) - Equipment & Utensils, Air-Drying Required (C) (10) Protection of Clean Items.
(a) Equipment and Utensils, Air-Drying Required. After cleaning and sanitizing, equipment and utensils:
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Shall be air-dried or used after adequate draining before contact with food; and
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May not be cloth dried except that utensils that have been air-dried may be polished with cloths that are maintained clean and dry.
15B - warewashing facilities: installed, maintained, used; test strips
Regulation: 511-6-1.05(3)(h),(i),(j) - temperature measuring device, manual warewashing; sanitizing solutions, testing device (pf)
Observed no quat test strips in facility. CA: Advised PIC to obtain quat test strips. A test kit or other device that accurately measures the concentration in mg/L of sanitizing solutions shall be provided.