OBSERVATIONS |
25 DCMR |
CORRECTIVE ACTIONS |
2. - There is no one on duty during the time of inspection, that has a Certified Food Protection Manager ID Card issued by the Department. The name Lanka Wickramartne ID Cer # 2080857 and date of Exam 12/09/2019 By Pro-metric (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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203.3 |
A person in charge who is a certified food protection manager as required in Section 203.1 shall obtain a District-issued Food Protection Manager Identification Card (ID Card), issued by the Department, and shall renew the District-issued ID Card every three (3) years. P
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5. - The establishment does not have approved procedures for responding to a contamination event due to vomiting or diarrhea.(CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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504.1 |
A licensee shall ensure that its food establishment shall have procedures for employees to follow when responding to vomiting or diarrheal events that involve the discharge of vomitus or fecal matter onto surfaces in the food establishment. The procedures shall address the specific actions employees must take to minimize the spread of contamination and the exposure of employees, consumers, food, and surfaces to vomitus or fecal matter. Pf
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8. - Observed a food employee fail to wash their hands when changing tasks and before changing gloves.(CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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402.1 |
Food employees shall clean their hands and exposed portions of their arms as specified in Section 401 immediately before working in direct contact with food, clean equipment and utensils, and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles, P and: (a) After touching bare human body parts other than clean hands and clean, exposed portions of arms; P (b) After using the toilet room; P (c) After caring for or handling aquatic animals as specified in Section 503.2; P (d) After coughing, sneezing, using a handkerchief or disposable tissue, using tobacco, eating, or drinking; P (e) After handling soiled surfaces, equipment, or utensils; P (f) During food preparation, as often as necessary to remove soil and contamination and to prevent cross-contamination when changing tasks; P (g) After each absence from the work station; P (h) Immediately before touching ready-to-eat food or food-contact surfaces; P (i) When switching between working with raw food and working with ready-to-eat food; P (j) Before donning gloves for working with food; P and (k) After engaging in other activities that contaminate the hands. P
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10. - There is no handwashing signage at latrine. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 14 CALENDAR DAYS)
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3004.1 |
A sign or poster that notifies food employees to wash their hands shall be provided at all handwashing sinks used by food employees and shall be clearly visibly to food employees.
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10. - There are no paper towels at the handwashing sink in the customer service line .(CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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3002.1 |
Each handwashing sink or group of adjacent sinks shall be provided with: (a) Individual, disposable towels; Pf (b) A continuous towel system that supplies the user with a clean towel; Pf (c) A heated-air hand drying device that is provided in addition to other hand-drying devices at sinks used for food preparation or warewashing areas; Pf or (d) A hand drying device that employs an air-knife system that delivers high velocity, pressurized air at ambient temperatures. Pf
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10. - There is no hot water (at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit) at the hand washing sink at unisex latrine. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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2402.1 |
A handwashing sink shall be equipped to provide water at a temperature of at least thirty-eight degrees Celsius (38 degrees C) (one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees F)) through a mixing valve or combination faucet. Pf
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15. - The cook picked up cooked bacon with a pair of gloves that he used to contact various other surfaces in the cooking area. The bacon and gloves were discarded. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
(Corrected On Site)
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813.1 |
If used, single-use gloves shall be used for only one task such as working with ready-to- eat food or with raw animal food, used for no other purpose, and discarded when damaged or soiled, or when interruptions occur in the operation. P
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16. - Mold was observed on the ice maker's ice chute and external surface the ice machine .(CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 14 CALENDAR DAYS)
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1901.5 |
Except when dry cleaning methods are used as specified in Section 1904, surfaces of utensils and equipment in contact with food that is not potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety food) shall be cleaned: (a) At any time when contamination may have occurred; (b) At least every twenty-four (24) hours for iced tea dispensers and consumer self-service utensils such as tongs, scoops, or ladles; (c) Before restocking consumer self-service equipment and utensils such as condiment dispensers and display containers; and (d) In equipment such as ice bins and beverage dispensing nozzles and enclosed components of equipment such as ice makers, cooking oil storage tanks and distribution lines, beverage and syrup dispensing lines or tubes, coffee bean grinders, and water vending equipment: (1) At a frequency specified by the manufacturer; or (2) Absent manufacturer specifications, at a frequency necessary to preclude accumulation of soil or mold.
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16. - Observed the slicer with an accumulation of food debris/soil. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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1900.1 |
Equipment food-contact surfaces and utensils shall be clean to sight and touch. Pf
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20. - Chicken that was cooked and cooled and chicken salad that was prepared in the morning were stored in walk in refrigeration units were observed at 65 and 50 degrees F respectively. Other foods were cooked today stored in are stored in the walk-in refrigerator are held at 50 and 45 degrees. All items have been held in the units at least 4 hours. Food items were discarded during inspection.(CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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1003.1 |
Cooked potentially hazardous food (time/temperature control for safety food) shall be cooled: (a) Within two (2) hours, from fifty-seven degrees Celsius (57 degrees C) (one hundred thirty-five degrees Fahrenheit (135 degrees F) to twenty-one degrees Celsius (21 degrees C) (seventy degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees F)); P and (b) Within six (6) hours, from fifty-seven degrees Celsius (57 degrees C) (one hundred thirty-five degrees Fahrenheit (135 degrees F) to five degrees Celsius (5 degrees C) (forty-one degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees F)) or less. P
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22. - Temperature control for safety foods observed improperly cold holding in the two walk-in cooler boiled chicken 65 F and chicken salad at 50 F. the foods were volunteer discard. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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1005.1 |
Except during preparation, cooking, or cooling, or when time is used as the public health control as specified in Section 1009, potentially hazardous food (time/ temperature control for safety food) shall be maintained: (b) At five degrees Celsius (5 degrees C) (forty-one degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees F)) or less. P
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22. - Temperature control for safety foods observed improperly cold holding in the sandwich preparation units. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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1005.1 |
Except during preparation, cooking, or cooling, or when time is used as the public health control as specified in Section 1009, potentially hazardous food (time/ temperature control for safety food) shall be maintained: (b) At five degrees Celsius (5 degrees C) (forty-one degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees F)) or less. P
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28. - Working containers of cleaning chemicals were stored above a container of croutons on the wire shelf in the prep area. The person in charge removed the containers from above the food items.
(Corrected On Site)
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3400.1 |
Poisonous or toxic materials shall be stored so they cannot contaminate food, equipment, utensils, linens, and single-service and single-use articles by: (a) Separating the poisonous or toxic materials by physically separating or partitioning by a wall or structure; P and (b) Locating the poisonous or toxic materials in an area that is not above food, equipment, utensils, linens, and single-service or single-use articles. This paragraph does not apply to equipment and utensil cleaners and sanitizers that are stored in warewashing areas for availability and convenience if the materials are stored to prevent contamination of food, equipment, utensils, linens, and single-service and single-use articles. P
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33. - Chicken salad and boiled chicken are cooling in sealed plastic bags in a stock pot in the walk-in refrigerator and the bags are preventing heat transfer. (Correct Violation Within 5 Calendar Days)
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1004.1 |
Cooling shall be accomplished in accordance with the time and temperature criteria specified in Section 1003 by using one (1) or more of the following methods based on the type of food being cooled: (a) Placing the food in shallow pans; Pf (b) Separating the food into smaller or thinner portions; Pf (c) Using rapid cooling equipment; Pf (d) Stirring the food in a container placed in an ice water bath; Pf (e) Using containers that facilitate heat transfer; Pf (f) Adding ice as an ingredient; Pf or (g) Other effective methods. Pf
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36. - No thermometers were observed in most of the refrigerators units. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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1524.2 |
Cold or hot holding equipment used for potentially hazardous food (time/temperature control for safety food) shall be designed to include and shall be equipped with at least one (1) integral or permanently affixed temperature measuring device that is located to allow easy viewing of the device's temperature display, except as specified in Section 1524.3.
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36. - The thermometer was located in the rear of the under-counter refrigerator. The thermometer was moved to the front.
(Corrected On Site)
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1524.1 |
In a mechanically refrigerated or hot food storage unit, the sensor of a temperature measuring device shall be located to measure the air temperature in the warmest part of a mechanically refrigerated unit and in the coolest part of a hot food storage unit.
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37. - There are unlabeled plastic squeeze bottles of oils and condiments on the counters above the under-counter refrigerators. (Correct Violation Within 14 Calendar Days)
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803.1 |
Working containers holding food or food ingredients that are removed from their original packages for use in the food establishment, such as cooking oils, flour, herbs, potato flakes, salt, spices, and sugar shall be identified with the common name of the food, except that containers holding food that can be readily and unmistakably recognized, such as dry pasta, need not be identified.
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39. - A bag of potatoes is stored on the floor. The bag was moved to a storage shelf.
(Corrected On Site)
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816.1 |
Except as specified in Sections 816.2 and 816.3, food shall be protected from contamination by storing the food: (c) At least fifteen centimeters (15 cm) or six inches (6 in.) above the floor.
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40. - Food employee observed not wearing a hair restraint while working with open food.(CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 14 CALENDAR DAYS)
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502.1 |
Food employees shall wear clean and effective hair restraints, such as hairnets or beard nets, if appropriate, and clothing that covers body hair that are designed and worn to effectively keep hair from contacting exposed food, clean equipment and utensils, linens, and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles. Hats, caps, scarves or other head covers are acceptable if the hair is contained to prevent contamination. Hair spray and tying back the hair in a ponytail are not effective hair restraints.
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41. - Wet wiping cloths are stored on the cutting boards while not in use. The cloths were placed in buckets of sanitizing solutions.
(Corrected On Site)
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812.2 |
Cloths that are in-use for wiping counters and other equipment surfaces shall be: (a) Held between uses in a chemical sanitizer solution at a concentration specified in Section 1813; and (b) Laundered daily as specified in Section 2101.4.
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47. - Blue cutting boards located in the back of the kitchen were scratched and had stains. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 14 CALENDAR DAYS)
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1801.1 |
Surfaces such as cutting blocks and boards that are subject to scratching and scoring shall be resurfaced if they can no longer be effectively cleaned and sanitized, or discarded if they are not capable of being resurfaced.
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48. - There are no chemical test strips available to measure the concentration of the sanitizing solution. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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1608.1 |
A test kit or other device that accurately measures the concentration in micrograms per liter (mg/L) of sanitizing solutions shall be provided. Pf
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51. - There is no mop sink inside the establishment. Mop water is dumped outside.(CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 14 CALENDAR DAYS)
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2408.1 |
At least one (1) service sink or one (1) curbed cleaning facility equipped with a floor drain shall be provided and conveniently located for the cleaning of mops or similar wet floor cleaning tools and for the disposal of mop water and similar liquid waste.
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55. - Pipes and other conduits are hanging from the ceiling throughout the establishment. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 14 CALENDAR DAYS)
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2901.2 |
Exposed utility service lines and pipes shall be installed so they do not obstruct or prevent cleaning of the floors, walls, or ceilings.
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56. - Grease and smoke particulate matter are accumulating on the ventilation hood filters. (Correct Violation Within 14 Calendar Days)
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1509.4 |
Hoods, grease-removal devices, fans, ducts and other appurtenances shall be cleaned at intervals necessary to prevent the accumulation of grease in the kitchen .
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56. - There is no ventilation hood installed above the oven across from the 3-compartment sink. (Correct Violation Within 14 Calendar Days)
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3009.5 |
Each cooking unit that creates smoke, steam, gases, fumes, odors, vapors, or excessive heat shall be hooded and vented, or locally vented to the outside air by forced draft, in a manner that effectively removes the conditions; provided, that small burners used intermittently for short periods of time, warming equipment, bread toasters, coffee urns, and radiant cooking units need not be so vented unless one (1) or more of the units creates a nuisance, or the Department determines the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system does not adequately vent the room as specified in Section 3009.3.
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56. - The ceiling light tubes above the 3-compartment sink are unshielded. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 14 CALENDAR DAYS)
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2908.1 |
Except as specified in Section 2908.2, light bulbs shall be shielded, coated, or otherwise shatter-resistant in areas where there is exposed food, clean equipment, utensils, linens, or unwrapped single-service and single-use articles.
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62. - The establishment's business license expired on 05/31/2020. Contact the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs regarding the license's status. Please fax a copy of the renewed license to our office at 202-535-1359. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 5 CALENDAR DAYS)
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4300.2 |
No person shall operate a food establishment with an expired license. Pf
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62. - A current inspection report is not posted in a location that is conspicuous to consumers. (CORRECT VIOLATION WITHIN 14 CALENDAR DAYS)
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4310.2 |
The licensee shall post a current license, valid Certificate of Occupancy, and a current inspection reports in a location within the food establishment that is conspicuous to consumers as specified in Section 4306.3.
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Sanitizer: Quaternary Ammonium, 150 ppm, 0.0 pH, 76.0°F
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