Here’s why an inspector shut down all food equipment at a Hialeah supermarket

Spotting a lack of basic cleanliness and food safety equipment, state inspectors stopped the use of “all open food processing/dispensing/packing” and “all food equipment and utensils” at a Hialeah supermarket last week.

Those were just two of the five Stop Use Orders dropped on Miri Supermarket, 1574 W. 39th Pl., by Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspectors Francis Odio and Caridad Delgado.

Consumer Services inspections of all packaged food sellers, commercial and retail bakeries, food storage facilities and food processors work slightly differently than restaurant inspections, which are done by the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation. Failure doesn’t close the establishment, as is the case with restaurants…

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