9-2: .04(6)(k)Observed various TCS (time/temperature control for safety) foods stored in reach in freezer. Frozen, chicken, lobster tail, steak are removed from their original packaging and vacuum sealed on site. Some packages are indicated with datemarking over 48 hrs and other items are not datemarked at all.
A food service establishment shall obtain a variance from the Health Authority as specified in DPH Rule 511-6-1-.10(5)(a) and (5)(b) before: (Pf)
- Smoking food as a method of food preservation rather than as a method of flavor enhancement; (Pf)
- Curing food; (Pf)
- Using food additives or adding components such as vinegar: (Pf)
(i) As a method of food preservation rather than as a method of flavor enhancement, (Pf) or
(ii) To render a food so that it is not time/temperature control for safety food; (Pf)
- Operating a molluscan shellfish life-support system display tank used to store or display shellfish that are offered for human consumption; (Pf)
- Packaging time/temperature control for safety food using a reduced oxygen packaging method except where the growth and toxin formation of Clostridium botulinum and growth of Listeria monocytogenes are controlled as specified under (k) of this Rule; (Pf)
- Custom processing animals that are for personal use as food and not for sale or service in a food service establishment; (Pf)
- Preparing food by another method that is determined by the Health Authority to require a variance; (Pf) or
- Sprouting seeds or beans. (Pf)
Corrective Actions: PIC discarded all facility vacuumed packaged foods. // SECOND CONSECUTIVE REPEAT VIOLATION //