Ice in contact with a moldy chute and a knife in contact with a trash can while being used are two of the reasons an Oakland Park grocery store failed state inspection Tuesday.
Lucky Farmer’s Market, 61 NE 44th St., didn’t get shut down. Unlike the state’s restaurant inspectors from another agency, that’s not in the power Florida Department of Agriculture Inspectors Carolyn Dragone and Steven Mentor.
But there will be a re-inspection before Jan. 21.
Some of what the inspectors found include:
The backroom ice machine’s “chute has black, mold-like residue.”
The job of the backroom’s walk-in cooler is to keep food at or under 41 degrees. The walk-in measured 49 degrees, so keeping food in the walk-in doesn’t count as safe keeping. Both the pico and the cooked ground beef got hit with Stop Sale Orders and tossed.
In one of the processing areas, they “observed an employee cutting pineapple and rubbing knife along the top of a trash can.”
“Raw chicken and other meats stores on the ground” in the backroom.