A state inspector saw live bugs in boxes of pasta at a Kendall Fresco y Mas supermarket

David J. Neal
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Bugs mixed with rigatoni caught the attention of state inspectors at a Fresco y Mas supermarket on Wednesday, but they weren’t the only reason the store earned the lowest rating of “Re-Inspection Required.”

The store in Winn-Dixie’s Latin-flavored sister chain has two weeks to fix the shopping cart full of food safety problems found by Florida Department of Agriculture inspectors Wenndy Ayerdis and Catalina Ordonez.

Here are some of the problems the inspectors found on their visit to the grocery store at 18300 SW 137th Ave.:

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▪ In the pasta aisle, “live black and white insects were found inside multiple boxes of rigatoni.” This, of course, brought a Stop Sale order on the 12 boxes of Ronzoi rigatoni.

▪ The seafood area’s ice machine was decorated with “black mold-like grime encrusted in the interior housing and the ice making portion...”

▪ In the meat department, “old food residue was encrusted on the meat grip” of a slicer.

▪ “Single service small bowls were stored directly on the floor in the deli storage cooler.”

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▪ The inspectors saw food employees in single-use gloves leave “the deli area to pick up ingredients in the cooler, then return to wash oranges in the preparation sink, and then handle clean utensils for customer orders without changing gloves between tasks.”

▪ The bakery walk-in freezer had a leak from ice buildup on a condensing unit over a shelving unit with food items.

▪ In the produce area, four hours of cooling in the walk-in cooler didn’t get watermelon cut that morning at or under 41 degrees, the temperature safety line for cold storage. So multiple packages of watermelon had to be tossed.

▪ The same walk-in cooler had “multiple packages” of Dole chopped salad also not down to 41 degrees, and were tossed.

▪ “Cut papaya with exposed fleshy interior was placed directly into the fruit wash with whole melons in the ware wash sink.” Out with the papaya.

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▪ Out in the grab-and-go display hot holding cases, a container of fried chicken measured 105 to 112 degrees. It needed to be at 135 degrees for safe hot storage. A Stop Sale was issued.

▪ In the meat department, there was “meat residue encrusted on multiple foam meat trays above the preparation table.” A Stop-Use Order hit the meat trays, which joined the other food in the garbage.