Failure to Properly Store and Label Food Items in Kitchen
Penalty
Summary
Facility staff failed to store, label, and distribute food in a sanitary manner in the main kitchen. During a kitchen tour, surveyors observed multiple opened food items in the reach-in refrigerator, walk-in refrigerator, and walk-in freezer without proper labels or dates indicating when they were opened. Personal beverages and snacks were stored alongside facility food items in the reach-in refrigerator. In the walk-in refrigerator, items such as three-bean salad, vanilla pudding, cooked spaghetti noodles, corn, ham slices, mayonnaise, and cottage cheese were found without any labels or open dates. The walk-in freezer contained sandwich meats, meatballs, and peppers also lacking proper labeling. Some containers, such as the one containing ham, showed signs of spoilage, including a film on top of the water. The dietary manager acknowledged awareness of the unlabeled and undated food items and confirmed that all food items are required to be labeled with an open date and a use-by date before storage.