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Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Joplin's Homewood Suites Breakfast fails food inspection
JOPLIN, Mo. — A Joplin hotel fails a food inspection Thursday. According to the City of Joplin Health Department, Homewood Suites Breakfast, located on E 32nd Street, failed its most recent routine food inspection on July 17. The inspector noted the following under Observations & Corrective Actions: 3-3: 3-304.14Type: ['Violation']Violation Code: 3-304.14 – Core – Wiping Cloths, Use Limitation Wiping cloth observed lying on preparation Wiping cloth observed lying on preparation table. 3-5: 3-501.16 (A)Type: ['Violation']Violation Code: 3-501.16 (A) – Priority – Potentially Hazardous Food, Cold Holding Salsa, shredded cheese, oatmilk overnight oats on buffet is being cold held above 41° Salsa, shredded cheese, oatmilk overnight oats on buffet is being cold held above 41° Actions: Maintain cold PHF's at or below 41°F. Do not store PHF's in this unit until it is able to maintain 41°F or below. Discard any PHF that has been out of temperature control for more than 4 hours or an unknown length of time. Repair, replace, or remove the unit. 4-5: 4-501.112Type: ['Violation']Violation Code: 4-501.112 – Priority – Mechanical Warewashing Equipment, Hot Water Sanitization Temperatures Water temperature is 115 ° Water temperature is 115 ° Actions: Water temperature may not be more than 194°F or less than 165°F or 180°F. The hotel passed its last four routine visits. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Yahoo
Dad makes horrifying Costco rotisserie chicken discovery he initially thought was 'just fat'
A dad-of-six has shared his disgust upon discovering the packaged Costco rotisserie chicken he brought home was infested with maggots. Liam Jamieson, 50, purchased the product from a Liverpool store (Waterloo Road, Vauxhall) but his partner was forced to put it in the oven to "keep it out of the way". She first rang the alarm bell over a lumpy, white substance inside the sealed packet, and while Liam initially thought it was "just fat" he soon realised the disgusting truth. Read more: Breaking - 'best' Birmingham balti house on fire as owner reveals hero moment Liam the ECHO : "We've bought cooked chickens from [Costco] in the past and had no problems. "My partner put it in the oven out the way of the worktop. She always checks the food to make sure it's okay. She got the chicken out to get ready to cook it, and she shouted me in, 'come and have a look at this!' "There were white things inside the bag. She took a picture and zoomed in, and then we could see the larvae. It nearly made her sick. "If it had been me, I would have just ripped the bag open and not seen it. But my partner always checks everything, and we're lucky she did." Upon the grotesque realisation, Liam phoned the store which he claimed advised putting the chicken back in the freezer and returning it when convenient. Yet, he put the chicken in a carrier bag and left it out of the way. He intended to bring it back to the store on the following day, though when he later looked in the bag he noticed yet another horrendous discovery. The larvae had hatched, with the flies "crawling all over the place". Upon returning the chicken to the store, Liam says he was given a £20 Costco voucher, along with assurances an investigation would be carried out. Liam said: "We couldn't eat anything that day. Even now, it makes me feel sick. When we're eating our dinner, I can just see the little things in the chicken. "It's affected my kids a lot more. They're funny eaters anyway, but now when we buy anything, they're checking for maggots. They're standing in the kitchen watching us make the food, checking there's nothing there."
Arab News
13-06-2025
- Health
- Arab News
Tabuk Municipality intensifies inspection campaigns
TABUK: Tabuk Municipality has launched intensified inspection campaigns aimed at monitoring the compliance of food and commercial establishments with municipal requirements. Owaid Al-Atwi, deputy mayor for licensing and compliance, said that 1,253 field visits were conducted as part of the campaign, resulting in 184 establishments being issued warnings, and seven others being shut down due to more serious violations. In addition, 46 kilograms of spoiled raw materials and 54 kilograms of rotten meat were confiscated. Al-Atwi said that the most prominent violations included the absence of health certificates for workers. He emphasized that these efforts are made to ensure the provision of safe and healthy food services and to enhance establishments' adherence to approved health standards.
CBS News
06-06-2025
- Health
- CBS News
FDA food inspector vacancies near 20% after Trump hiring freeze
Nearly 1 in 5 positions across the Food and Drug Administration's human food inspection divisions are now vacant, multiple agency officials tell CBS News, in the wake of departures encouraged by the Trump administration's cost-cutting efforts and a government-wide hiring freeze that had stalled efforts to replenish their ranks. While the FDA has long struggled with hiring and retaining qualified investigators to inspect food producers and distributors, multiple federal health officials — who spoke on the condition of anonymity and were not authorized to speak to the press — say that the staffing gap has worsened due to early retirements and resignations. "The FDA remains fully capable of fulfilling its public health mission to protect the safety of the American people. Under Commissioner Makary's leadership, the agency continues to meet its inspection obligations, ensuring that all facilities are reviewed within mandated timeframes," Emily Hilliard, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, told CBS News. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary has claimed in interviews that no inspectors were laid off at the agency as a result of the sweeping restructuring ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that began in April, but has not acknowledged the retirements and resignations. And despite Makary's statements, multiple FDA officials said they are worried about worsening attrition in the agency's ranks of investigators. "They're not going to admit our mission is at risk and we're missing timeframes, even though I've heard that's happening," a current FDA official told CBS News in a message. A separate current FDA official and one former official said that close to 20% of investigational positions are vacant across the agency's human foods inspectorate. "Since 2017, our ability to fulfill its public health mission is increasingly constrained by reduced inspectional capacity. We continue to face significant obstacles in recruiting and retaining qualified investigators, particularly in the foods program, where nearly 90 investigative positions remain vacant," the agency said last month in response to a draft of a report by the HHS inspector general. The inspector general had concluded that the FDA would need to increase inspections by more than 3,000 each year, in order to meet its goals. Under requirements laid out by Congress, the FDA is required to inspect food facilities at specific intervals, benchmarks that government watchdogs have long faulted the agency for falling short of. "For FDA to meet the inspection timeframes moving forward, it would need to inspect approximately 7,000 high-risk facilities each year. However, FDA inspected only about 58 percent of that amount," the inspector general's June 2025 report said. Around 40% of investigator positions are vacant for the group of investigators tasked with inspecting "critical foods" like infant formula plants, a current official said. "Critical foods has had difficulty with staffing because every inspection is high profile and the team is traveling more often than not. It isn't sustainable for everyone," a former FDA official said. The job of an FDA investigator has gotten harder in recent months, as the Trump administration imposed additional hurdles to make small purchases necessary for their work, ranging from buying everyday supplies to shipping samples, officials said. "The reality is that the extra steps in budget approval processes have caused inspections to be delayed, and investigators have had to take on administrative tasks that eat into their time being productive. Everything was taking longer," the former FDA official said. Many administrative staff and laboratory scientists supporting the FDA's food inspectors were also eliminated through layoffs, resulting in backlogs of testing and reimbursements. Some have since been reinstated by the agency. One current and one former FDA official said the agency also had many investigators that were in the process of being hired months ago, before attempts to fill the slots were blocked by an order signed by President Trump that now extends through July 15. Multiple officials said Friday morning they were hopeful that the Trump administration might grant an exemption to the hiring freeze after weeks of lobbying by officials within the agency. On Friday afternoon, after HHS responded to a CBS News request for comment about this story, the FDA published its first new hiring announcement for food investigators in months, among a handful of new job postings. "This position is being filled under a stream-lined hiring authority," the job posting reads.
Daily Mail
05-06-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
Inspectors flag health code violations at Trump's 'Summer White House'
As President Donald Trump settles into spending his summer weekends at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf resort, he may want to peek into the club's kitchen. Forbes reported Wednesday that the golf club was flagged for 18 health violations, nine of which were deemed critical, in the latest report issued by the Somerset County Department of Health. The May 6 report , which was publicly released, rated the club a 32 out of 100 possible points - the lowest score in the county. Inspectors found expired milk, raw meat that was stored improperly and a dishwasher that wasn't getting to the required temperature. Raw meats and eggs are required to be stored separately from ready-to-eat foods. In the Bedminster kitchen, raw meat was being stored above the cheese, the inspection found. The milk being used in the kitchen had expired three days before the inspection occurred. There were four separate hand-washing violations as well. Sinks lacked soap or the required paper towels for hand drying. Additionally, no employee with the required 'food manager level certification' was present at the time of the inspection. The club was issued a 'conditionally satisfactory' C grade - with management required to hang the sign in public view. The county inspector commanded the club to fix all the violations and pay a reinspection fee at a county building ahead of the next inspection. The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to Daily Mail's request for comment. This isn't the first time the New Jersey club's kitchen has been dinged by county inspectors. In August 2017, at the end of Trump's first summer in the White House, reported that Bedminster had been cited for at least 17 health code violations during routine inspections between 2011 and 2016. The reports cited 'significant fly activity' in the pool kitchen and main kitchen, dirty utensils with 'old and encrusted food buildup,' melons stored at the wrong temperature, dirty wiping cloths, grease-covered fryer units and uncovered and spilled food storage bins. The infractions were minor enough that the restaurants earned a 'satisfactory' grade and remained open. The Bedminster club opened in 2004 and is where the president has spent his time when the Palm Beach climate at Mar-a-Lago gets too hot. During the 2024 campaign, Trump used the club to host a handful of press conferences.
