A running rodent problem halts a Palm Beach Dollar General’s food and beverage delivery
A Dollar General store in unincorporated Palm Beach County has found itself in a race — can its rodent problem get solved before customers buy all the food and drink in the establishment?
Because, since Thursday, the Dollar General, at 3969 N. Haverhill Rd., hasn’t been able to get new food or beverage deliveries.
That’s when Florida Department of Agriculture inspectors Stephen Collins and Kashlor Webb dropped Stop-Use Orders on the store’s dry storage and its receiving area for food, beverage and single use items.
This was after seeing “rodent droppings and harborage area in the backstock area near the receiving door, and rodent droppings on on floor and shelves by the rack near the mop sink.”
Ag Department inspectors can’t shut an entire establishment down. But, they can put Stop-Use Orders on areas and equipment and Stop Sale Orders on food.
When inspectors returned Monday, the store hoped they would release the storage and receiving areas. Instead...
“Rodent droppings on shelves by the mop sink. Dead rodent under shelving by the mop sink. Stop-Use Orders still in place.”
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