Failure to Maintain Food Safety Standards and Temperature Monitoring
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to store, prepare, distribute, and serve food in accordance with professional standards for food service safety. Specifically, staff did not ensure that food, dishwasher, refrigerator, and freezer temperatures were performed and recorded as required. Observations revealed that two opened boxes of yeast roll dough were left open to air in the walk-in freezer, and review of temperature logs showed that no refrigerator, freezer, or dishwasher temperatures were recorded on multiple dates. Additionally, food temperatures for dinner meal services were not completed on two occasions. Interviews with dietary staff confirmed that temperature checks were not completed appropriately and that there was a lack of monitoring to ensure logs were filled out as required. Facility policies reviewed indicated that food should be covered, labeled, and dated, and that temperatures should be checked and recorded at specified intervals, but these procedures were not followed. This deficient practice had the potential to affect all 93 residents who received meals prepared in the kitchen.