Flies on fish. Bad empanadas. Piles of food at a Miami chain supermarket got trashed

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Flies on fish. Bad empanadas. Piles of food at a Miami chain supermarket got trashed

From fish heads to pigs feet, all kinds of flesh and fruit at a Miami Gardens supermarket got sent to the garbage when state inspectors unleashed a monsoon of Stop ***** Orders during a visit this week.

Inspectors also found inadequate hand-washing, equipment maintenance and cleanliness at the Price Choice Foodmarket at 18351 NW 27th Ave. when they dropped by Wednesday.

This Price Choice, owned by J&J Family Food Corp. (president, secretary, treasurer, director Davie’s Juan Diaz), also failed an inspection in 2022 when

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. A year ago, the Hialeah Price Choice, owned by J Mary J Food Corp. (Juan Diaz, secretary, Plantation’s Osiris Diaz, president), got caught leaving food on pallets out near the sidewalk, leaving doors open for pests and leaving general cleanliness behind.

Here’s some of what filled a 12-page inspection report by Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspectors Pedro Llanos and Kaitlyn Ford.

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(This will not be the last of the Stop Sales).

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Succession of Stop ***** Orders

Despite being a supermarket, which one could expect sells a functional food thermometer, inspectors found this Price Choice had “no probe thermometer available for assessing, receiving and holding” of foods.

So, once inspectors started poking the food with their thermometers, the parade of food to the garbage began.

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2) and beef bologna (Strike 3). Three up, three down, 26 packages smashed with a Stop *****.

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All should’ve been kept at or over 135 degrees. The chicharrones came in at 81 degrees. The packaged pork roast at 103 degrees and everything else at 116 to 117 degrees. Inspectors allowed the chicharrones to be reheated and showered Stop Sales on the rest.

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2.5-pound bucket of marinated chicken leg quarters in the kitchen area came in at 53 degrees. But, far more disturbing in the kitchen area was a “container storing tripe and pigs feet.”

Whether or not the tripe and pigs feet sat in green juice, they were being thawed at room temperature, measured 73 degrees, a temperature that can turn pork into food-borne illness Death Stars able to blow up your insides.

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4-inch deep, 12-inch by 10-inch pan of breading.

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