Sacramento County health inspectors closed five local eateries including a Home Depot, a Sizzler, a Mexican restaurant, sandwich shop, boba tea shop and Chinese restaurant due to a dead rodent in a glue trap, more than 85 rodent droppings and a cockroach infestation.
Meanwhile, a total of 24 eateries received yellow placards for health code violations ranging from mold-like accumulations on the ceiling to an employee handling garbage then returning to food preparation.
What do these inspections mean?
While a yellow placard signals two or more major violations. These are typically corrected or mitigated during the inspection, according to the Sacramento County Retail Food Inspection Guide.
A red placard, however, signals “imminent danger to public health and safety” and suspends the health permit until violations are corrected. This could include, but is not limited to, major vermin contamination…