A Springfield restaurant was cited for having seafood at an unsafe temperature and for an employee washing their hands next to thawing shrimp this past week, according to Springfield-Greene County Health Department report.
Amazin Buffet, 2501 S. Campbell Ave., had mussels sitting on the kitchen countertop at 58 degrees, according to a Feb. 25 report. During that same inspection, an employee was reported to have washed their hands in a prep sink with shrimp thawing in an adjacent compartment. Both the mussels and the shrimp were discarded, and the employee re-washed their hands in the correct sink.
Issues found during inspections fall into either priority or non-priority violations. Priority violations impact the safety of the food, such as cross-contamination between raw and ready-to-eat food, improper food temperature and poor personal hygiene and employee health. Multiple priority violations can lead to an establishment being shut down. Non-priority violations alone do not directly affect food safety, such as dirty floors, sticky tabletops or outside trash cans not being covered…