Unsafe food, handwashing violations at popular Miami-area kosher supermarket

Workers not washing their hands enough, sink inadequacies and various food safety violations caused an Aventura kosher supermarket to fail state inspection last week.

Wednesday’s visit to Kosher Kingdom Supermarket, 3017 NW 199th St., by Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspectors Lourdes Chantez and Carolyn Dragone included a flurry of Stop Sale Orders and ended with “Re-Inspection Required,” the designation of failure.

While their restaurant-inspecting counterparts in the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation can close places that fail inspection, that’s not an arrow in these Ag inspectors’ quivers. They can put Stop Use Orders on equipment and areas, however, and that happened during this inspection…

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