Failure to Remove Expired Food from Refrigerator
Penalty
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Summary
Surveyors observed that the facility failed to remove expired food items from the refrigerator in accordance with their policy. Specifically, a bin of tomatoes with a use by date that had passed and a bin of wilted celery with no date were found during an inspection. The facility's produce storage guidelines require that fresh vegetables be checked for ripeness, labeled, dated, and rotated so that the oldest produce is used first, and that expired items be disposed of. During an interview, the dietary supervisor confirmed that all deliveries are labeled upon receipt and should be discarded after the use by date, but this was not followed in practice.