4 restaurants, hotel, mini mart fail food safety inspections in Tri-Cities
By Annette Cary,
12 hours ago
The Benton Franklin Health District gave four failing grades in food safety inspections of restaurants and other establishments selling food in the Tri-Cities area Sept. 21-27.
The health district’s food safety team gave passing grades on 50 inspections, with 18 of those awarded perfect scores.
One restaurant, Cardamom Indian Grill & Bar, was not sanitizing dishes and surfaces in contact with raw meats and was required to stop food operations and dish washing. Sanitizer was brought in while the inspector was still there and food service was allowed to continue then.
In the district’s routine inspections, businesses or organizations that receive at least 35 points for the more serious red violations are required to have additional inspections and must meet a tougher standard on those.
To pass followup inspections, they must have fewer than 25 red points and fewer than 10 repeat red points for previous issues.
Scores of 85 or more red points result in establishments remaining on probation until they pass two follow-up inspections, the first one within 72 hours.
Red violations are those most likely to cause food-borne illnesses, such as not keeping hot food hot enough or cold food cold enough, lack of adequate handwashing or bare-hand contact with foods.
Blue violations are low risk factors related to the cleanliness and physical condition of an establishment.
No notice is given before the inspections.
Businesses may have separate inspections of business lines with different health safety risks, such as grocery sales and a deli that prepares food.
Inspection results are posted online so residents can look up the status and the details of any violations of individual restaurants or check other businesses.
Go to bit.ly/BFHDinspections . Click on the business name and then on the date of the inspection on the right half of the next page. Look for the “Violations” tab.
Cardamom Indian Grill & Bar , 1312 Lee Blvd., Richland, Routine Sept. 26 (80 Red, 0 Blue)
Notes: Lack of active managerial control (too many red points), improper hand washing (worker did not wash hands before putting on gloves to handle bread), improper raw meat handling procedures (no sanitizer for dishes and surfaces used for raw meat handling), room temperature storage or improper use of time as a control, improper cold holding (>45°F — some sauce discarded).
Courtyard by Marriott , 480 Columbia Point Drive, Richland, Routine Sept. 27 (35 Red, 0 Blue)
Notes: Improper hand washing (worker did not wash hands before putting on gloves to prepare food), not properly disposing of potentially unsafe food (no date marked on precooked sausages and deli ham and turkey).
Notes: No certified food protection manager on staff, improper hand washing (food worker dried hands on his clothes after washing), inadequate handwashing facilities, variance not obtained for specialized processing methods (pH measures of kimchi not logged).
Pit Stop Mini Mart , 6193 W. Van Giesen St., West Richland, Routine Sept. 25 (45 Red, 7 Blue)
Notes: Improper hand washing (handwashing sink had no soap for four days according to worker — food discarded), inadequate handwashing facilities (no soap or paper towels), lack of conformance with approved procedures (must stop using deep fryer until equipment issue is resolved).
Passed inspections
Anthony’s Restaurant , 550 Columbia Point Drive, Richland, Routine Sept. 24 (10 Red, 5 Blue)
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