Springfield-Greene County Health Department food inspectors found mouse feces under a soda machine in an Ozarks kitchen this week.
The E-Plex Concessions East kitchen at Ozark Empire Fairground, 3001 N. Grant Ave., had no priority violations during its Aug. 21 routine inspection, but inspectors did find mouse feces underneath the soda machine, according to the report.
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…