Food safety violations at Chinatown restaurants in Las Vegas have prompted a string of recent closures, according to a report from KTNV News. Many of them were for holding food at improper temperatures and storing or preparing food in dirty areas. Keeping hot foods hot and cold foods cold is a basic food safety principle. Cold … Read more
Health officials closed Boston Shawarma after finding more than a dozen food safety violations during an inspection. The violations discovered during an April 30 inspection included problems with food temperature, cross contamination and employee hygiene. Storage problems included a box of rotten cucumbers stores in the walk-in cooler. Raw food was stored next to ready-to-eat … Read more
Food safety violations triggered a temporary closure of actress Eva Longoria’s Las Vegas steakhouse, She by Morton’s, according to the Southern Nevada Health District. The restaurant was clsoed only briefly and is now open. On April 22, health inspectors visited the restaurant at 3720 Las Vegas Blvd., and found 32 food safety demerits including violations for … Read more
For the second time in less than a year, New York City has reduced restaurant health inspection fines, restoring them to levels that existed prior to its restaurant grading system which began in 2010. The program, which requires restaurants to post the letter grade of their health inspection in their front window, has been credited … Read more
According to Voactiv.com, four of New York City’s Michelin-starred restaurants have received C grades from the Department of Health this year. The scoring of restaurants is based on whether there is a public health hazard, critical violations, or general violations of food safety and cleanliness rules. Some violations include failing to keep food at a … Read more
Florida health inspection records show that Big Tim’s BBQ restaurant in St. Petersburg, Florida was closed last month after inspections revealed many problems with equipment, cleanliness, and rodent activity. A report by 10News in Tampa Bay said that the restaurant may have been the source of a Salmonella outbreak that sickened several people in June. … Read more
The Burma Superstar restaurant in San Francisco that is at the center of a city and state E. coli investigation has had a history of mostly low-risk food safety violations, according to a review of health department inspection documents by Food Poisoning Bulletin. One person has been hospitalized in the outbreak for a life-threatening case … Read more
The Saginaw County Department of Public Health has put restaurant inspection findings online for the public to see. That county joins many municipalities and states around the country that post results online. There are 668 licensed eateries in the county. Inspections are unannounced and conducted every six months or twelve months. The inspection reports date … Read more
A suspected case of food poisoning and a complaint has led to an inspection at Orange on Roscoe in Roscoe Village in Chicago Illinois. The Chicago Department of Public Health’s Food Protection Program has details about the inspection report at the restaurant. There is no word on what pathogen may have caused the alleged food … Read more
After a recent report published by Nola.com and the The Times-Picayune revealed that New Orleans had fewer restaurant inspections than most cities and that many of the city’s restaurant’s hadn’t been inspected at all during 2012, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals unveiled a new plan sto strengthen food safety inspections. The plan, announced December … Read more