Gave PIC information on next manager's Servsafe class. Also gave example of employee health policy.
- Critical: Demonstration of Knowledge* (repeated violation)
Observation: The person in charge failed to state the required temperatures and holding times for the following conditions of potentially hazardous food: Cooling.
Correction: Ensure the designated person in charge (PIC) is knowledgeable about foodborne disease prevention, Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Point principles and Regulation requirements. The PIC should be prepared to recognize conditions that may contribute to foodborne illness. The PIC must also recognize conditions that fail to comply with Regulation requirements and be authorized to take the appropriate preventive and corrective actions to ensure that the Regulations' objectives are fulfilled. Suggest PIC complete a manager's food safety course.
- Cloths - Wiping Cloths - Use Limitation (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: Wiping cloths improperly stored between use.
Correction: Ensure wet wiping cloths are stored in a chemical sanitizer at the proper concentration between use.
- Critical: Cooling* (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: Ground beef noted not being adequately cooled to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria.
Correction: Cool potentially hazardous foods from 135°F to 70°F within 2 hours and within a total of 6 hours from 135°F to 41°F. A longer time for cooling allows an ideal situation for bacterial growth. This has been shown to be the major contributing factor in many foodborne illnesses.
- Cooling Methods (corrected on site)
Observation: The methods used for cooling were not adequate. Ground beef in walk-cooler was observed at temperatures too warm after aproximately 24 hours from the time it was prepared. Ground beef was observed in pans too thick to allow proper cooling.
Correction: Cool foods by the following methods: 1. Placing food in shallow pans 2. Separating food into smaller thinner portions 3. Using rapid chill cooling equipment 4. Stirring the food in a container placed in an ice water bath 5. Using containers that facilitate heat transfer 6. Adding ice as an ingredient 7. Any other method that can effectively accomplish cooling.
- Critical: Food - Potentially Hazardous Food - Cold Holding* (corrected on site)
Observation: Various PHFs in the prep table cold holding at improper temperatures.
Correction: Cold hold potentially hazardous food at 41°F or below to inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria.
- Critical: Time as a Public Health Control* (repeated violation)
Observation: No written procedures for the use of time as a public health control with potentially hazardous foods (salsa).
Correction: Provide written procedures for the use of time as a public health control. The procedures must include the following steps or practices: a. Food must be marked with the time within which it must be cooked, served or discarded. b. The food is served or discarded within four hours from the time when the food is removed from temperature control c. Food in unmarked containers or packages, or for which the time expires is discarded and d. Written procedures are maintained in the food establishment and made available to the regulatory authority upon request e. Once time is implemented as a control measure for potentially hazardous food, no other measures may be substituted. CORRECT WITHIN 5 DAYS.
- Food Contact Surfaces - Cleanability*
Observation: The cutting boards are not smooth and easily cleanable.
Correction: Replace the cutting boards to provide a food contact surface that is smooth and easily cleanable, free of breaks, open seams, cracks, chips, pits, sharp internal angles, corners, and crevices to prevent build-up of food debris. CORRECT WITHIN 1 WEEK.
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