6 common violations during restaurant inspections
Here are six restaurant violations that inspectors often notice.
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Restaurant inspection records in Broome County show that five dining establishments had five or more violations in July, according to the latest data released by New York State.
An Asian fusion restaurant in Binghamton had five critical and six non-critical violations in July, including inadequate refrigeration of potentially hazardous foods and the use of inaccurate thermometers. The inspection also discovered live and dead rodents in the kitchen area.
Several other restaurants were reprimanded for not properly refrigerating food and not adequately disinfecting surfaces. In many cases, follow-up inspections of the restaurants revealed no violations.
Inspection reports are public documents, and the online database at data.pressconnects.com contains the results of inspections in Binghamton and across New York. Readers can see when a facility was last inspected and get a summary of the violations inspectors found.
The database can be searched by county, or you can enter a name or address to find records for a specific restaurant.
Explore: NY State Restaurant Inspection Database
Each report is a snapshot and reflects the observations of a single day that the inspectors were at the restaurant.
Keep in mind that the world of restaurant inspections is fluid. Your favorite restaurant may have committed a handful of violations, then quickly cleaned up and passed the next inspection with no violations. A clean slate on one report also doesn’t mean that problems can’t arise later.
Many problems are caused by food service workers either ignoring standard procedures or arriving sick and transmitting foodborne illnesses.
