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Here's why all the food in a Kendall BJ's Wholesale Club display unit got trashed

Anytime a state inspection's description of what food got hit with a Stop Sale Order is 'all food items in the deli cold display unit,' it's not a happy day for the place being inspected. On Monday, that place was the BJ's Wholesale Club at 7007 SW 117th Ave. This isn't the Kendall BJ's that had to dump pastelitos during a failed inspection last March. This is the Kendall BJ's that failed inspection in March 2022. READ MORE: Unsafe cheese, unclean 'clean' slicers at a Kendall's BJ's Wholesale Club Wenndy Ayerdis was one of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspectors at the BJ's with the bad pastelitos, and she teamed up with Margaret Alvarez for Monday's inspection. Here's what they found: ▪ The deli cold unit measured 46 to 49 degrees, way too warm for equipment with the job of keeping the meat and cheese inside at or under 41 degrees. Warmer than 41 can turn all that food into an armada of foodborne illness bacteria boats. While the inspectors watched the unit being repaired and cleared it, withholding a Stop Use Order, they carpeted the food inside with Stop Sales: American cheese, gouda, Buffalo wing cheddar, turkey breast, prosciutto, salami, uncured ham, El Toro ham and polish ham. All of it trashed. MORE: Lunch meat 3 weeks past its trash date among the problems at a Broward Fresh Market ▪ Food workers in the bakery, deli, meat and rotisserie areas 'did not wash their hands between entering and exiting the food preparation area and prior to donning gloves to handle food items.' ▪ Those same workers were 'wearing single-use gloves to handle food items, then changing tasks, entering and exiting the preparation areas without changing their gloves.' ▪ The bakery handwash sink didn't have any paper towels and was blocked by a rolling rack with baking trays. ▪ The rotisserie area's handwash sink had 'oven gloves used for rotisserie chicken stored inside the hand sink basin.' ▪ In the meat room, the sink where the washed cookware gets sanitized had weak sanitizer. ▪ The meat foam trays weren't in original packaging, so vulnerable to contamination. ▪ 'Dirt and dust were accumulated on the fan guards of the meat cold room condensing unit.'