Feb 19, 2026
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 the reach in cooler not following the proper levels of storage to prevent cross contamination. Observed whole shell eggs stored below raw uncooked pork. (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.
2-2A - management knowledge, responsibilities, reporting
Regulation: 511-6-1.03(2)(o) - person-in-charge duties (pf)
Observed employee health policy signed acknowledge forms for conditional and food employees not available for viewing and also no verbal or written information present for return to work procedures. Food employees and conditional employees are informed in a verifiable manner of their responsibility to report in accordance with the Chapter, to the person in charge, information about their health and activities as they relate to diseases that are transmissible through food
15B - warewashing facilities: installed, maintained, used; test strips
Regulation: 511-6-1.05(2)(cc) - warewashing, automatic dispensing of detergents and sanitizers (pf)
Observed the warewashing machine was out of chemical sanitizer. Once replaced with verified chlorine sanitizer, a chlorine test kit was unable to detect the chemical sanitizer used. PIC was instructed to contact the machine manufacturer to have the delivery system checked. Warewashing Machines, Automatic Dispensing of Detergents and Sanitizers. A warewashing machine that is installed after September 12, 2007 shall be designed and equipped to: automatically dispense detergents and sanitizers Pf and incorporate a visual means to verify that detergents and sanitizers are delivered or a visual or audible alarm to signal if the detergents and sanitizers are not delivered to the respective washing and sanitizing cycles. Pf
17C - physical facilities installed, maintained, and clean
Regulation: 511-6-1.07(2)(e) - floor covering, mats & duckboards (c)
Observed cardboard being used as a floor mat in the main kitchen. Informed the PIC that cardboard is not an approved floor mat material. PIC had the item discarded. Floor Covering, Mats and Duckboards. Mats and duckboards shall be designed to be removable and easily cleanable.