28-02-2025
Old food. Misplaced Butt Paste. Bakery roaches. A Broward Winn-Dixie had some issues
Inspectors saw food that had aged out of its place in the deli and roaches in the bakery during a stop at a Plantation Winn-Dixie.
By the time Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspectors Wenndy Ayerdis and Bryan Kirkconnell were done Tuesday at 901 N. Nob Hill Rd., they had shut down the bakery with a Stop Use Order and marched food to the trash with Stop Sale Orders. The Stop Use Order remained in effect after Inspector Pedro Llanos stopped by Wednesday.
Here are some of the problems Ayerdis and Kirkconnell listed.
▪ The bakery had 'carbon-encrusted baking trays.'
▪ 'Live roaches were crawling behind and beneath the large bakery oven near a metal pipe.' That brought a Stop Use Order for 'all open food processing and handling, all food related equipment and utensils in the bakery, including the ovens, proofer and bread slicer.'
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▪ Too old food packed the deli cold unit. Double hardwood ham, oven-roasted turkey, Serrano ham and criollo ham that reached its seven-day limit on Sunday had been allowed to hang around until Tuesday. Stop Sales all around.
▪ Also in the deli: 'Container of Butt Paste stored inside an empty sandwich preparation unit near the steamer/oven unit.'
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▪ No paper towels at a seafood area handwash sink.
▪ Packages of jumbo frozen scallops in a retail reach-in freezer contained 'no manufacturer or distributor information.'
▪ 'Old food residue encrusted on the blade' of a deli slicer that hadn't been used Tuesday, so the crud was from at least Monday.
▪ In the produce area, there was 'old food residue encrusted on a knife stored in the clean knife holder.'
▪ Watermelon quarters in the backroom walk-in cooler measured 42 to 51 degrees and needed to be at or under 41 degrees. Stop Sales on the watermelon.
▪ For the same reason, Stop Sales also rained on shrimp, mahi fillets, tilapia, bologna, sausage and ham in retail cold units.
