By admin Sacramento County Health Inspectors gave a red placard to the Land Park eatery after finding a dead rat and rodent droppings in the facility.
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What do these inspections mean?
While a yellow placard signals two or more major violations, these are typically corrected or mitigated during the inspection, according to the Sacramento County Retail Food Inspection Guide.
A red placard, however, signals “imminent danger to public health and safety” and suspends an establishment’s health permit until violations are corrected. This could include, but is not limited to, major vermin contamination.
In contrast, a green placard means a restaurant passed inspection.
The county performs about 14,000 inspections annually and about 97% of establishments pass, spokesman Ken Casparis previously told The Sacramento Bee.
Approximately 1% of inspections result in a closure, he said.
These were the results of Sacramento County food facility inspections for Thursday, Oct. 8, through Wednesday, Oct. 14. If an inspection listed below needs clarification, business owners can email The Sacramento Bee at [email protected].
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How to report a business to the health department
For readers who would like to report a local restaurant, food truck or café for health violations, you can file a complaint with the facility’s local environmental health departments.
The local health department is responsible for the initial investigation of consumer complaints regarding foods served or sold at retail food facilities, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Dining locations temporarily closed by health inspectors
Ming Dynasty Seafood Restaurant
1211 Broadway, Sacramento
Number of violations: 15
Date: Friday, Oct. 9
- Health Inspectors gave a red placard to the Land Park seafood restaurant after finding a dead rat on a glue board upstairs in the dry storage area.
- The facility had 130 rodent droppings throughout, including among debris underneath the fish tank, on the bottom shelf of the cart and rodent urine on the floor in the back upstairs room.
- Four food handler cards were unavailable for staff.
- Health inspectors observed an employee washing their hands with only water.
- Black growth was found on the walls and deflector plate of the ice machine.
Ming Dynasty Seafood Restaurant was reinspected on Saturday, Oct. 10 and received an additional red placard due to three dead rats underneath the couch in the upstairs storage room and 85 rodent droppings in the facility. The facility was reinspected on Sunday, Oct. 11 and passed with a green placard.
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The Bee reached out to the facility but no manager was onsite.