Routine
Sep 3, 2025
5 recorded violations
Official wording
Reviewed restriction and exclusion of ill employees. Left BCPH contact info. reach out any time if you have questions.
In plain English
This covers things like hair restraints, jewelry, clean clothing, eating or drinking in food prep areas, touching ready-to-eat food with bare hands, or not having a sick-employee policy.
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8. Hands cleaned and properly washed. Observed a food worker leaving food prep area to answer/use cell phone, when returning to food prep area, put on clean gloves then assumed food prep duties without washing hands. Corrected on site, person in charge asked employee to remove gloves and wash hands, then don new gloves, explaining they must wash their hands after handling cell phone or returning to work staton, changing tasks and before donning gloves to initiate a task that involves working with food. 2-301.14 When to Wash: immediately before engaging in food preparation including working with exposed food, clean equipment and utensils, and unwrapped single-service and single use articles and:(A) After touching bare human body parts other than clean hands and clean, exposed portions of arms;(B) After using the toilet room; (C) After caring for or handling service animals; (D) After coughing, sneezing, using a handkerchief or disposable tissue, using tobacco products, eating, or drinking; (E) After handling soiled equipment or utensils, (F) During food preparation, as often as necessary to remove soil and contamination and to prevent cross contamination when changing tasks; (G) When switching between working with raw food and working with ready to eat food; (H) Before donning gloves to initiate a task that involves working with food; and (I) After engaging in other activities that contaminate the hands.
In plain English
Staff were not washing their hands when required, or a handwashing sink was blocked, missing soap or paper towels, or used for something else. Hands are one of the most common ways germs reach food.
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23. Proper date marking and disposition. Observed squid salad prepared in house, use by date mark 3/18/2026 in display case available for sale to consumer. 3-501.17 Ready-to-Eat, Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food, Date Marking. (A) ... refrigerated, ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared and held in a food establishment for more than 24 hours shall be clearly marked to indicate the date or day by which the food shall be consumed on the PREMISES, sold, or discarded when held at a temperature of 41ºF or less. for a maximum of 7 days. The day of preparation shall be counted as Day 1. Corrected during inspection, person in charge discarded item. Education provided.
In plain English
Food was not kept cold enough, hot enough, cooled fast enough, or cooked or reheated to the right temperature. Bacteria grow quickly in the "danger zone" between 41°F and 135°F, which makes this one of the most important food-safety checks.
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Sushi rice variance in place, lab certificate for batch testing in place, and PH check demonstrated appropriately.
In plain English
A required permit, food safety certificate, trained manager, or posted sign was missing or not current. These show the business is following the rules and has trained staff.
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35 Approved thawing methods used. Oserved Reduced Oxygen Packaged (ROP) frozen salmon, thawing in the walk-in refrigerator still sealed in original ROP packaging. 3-501.13 (E)(1) REDUCED OXYGEN PACKAGED FISH that bears a label indicating that it is to be kept frozen until time of use shall be removed from the reduced oxygen environment (1) Prior to its thawing under refrigeration. Food employee opened ROP packaging and placed it back in the refrigerator to continue thawing, Operator agrees to remove or open frozen fish from ROP packaging before thawing. Education provided.
In plain English
Food was not kept cold enough, hot enough, cooled fast enough, or cooked or reheated to the right temperature. Bacteria grow quickly in the "danger zone" between 41°F and 135°F, which makes this one of the most important food-safety checks.
More about food kept at an unsafe temperatureOfficial record from Boulder County Public Health, Sep 3, 2025 · Original Source