Failure to Label Milk and Use Beard Restraints During Food Preparation
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors identified deficiencies in food storage and handling practices when a drink and snack cart outside a resident room was observed with an unlabeled and undated pitcher of milk sitting on a bucket of ice. A CNA confirmed that the milk on the cart was not labeled or dated. In a separate observation in the facility kitchen, two kitchen aides were seen preparing food without wearing beard restraints. During an interview, the Dietary Manager stated that his expectation is that kitchen staff label and date every item leaving the kitchen, which did not occur in this instance, and confirmed that the two kitchen aides were not wearing beard restraints as required when in the kitchen. No specific resident medical histories or conditions were mentioned in relation to these deficiencies.
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