Too warm raw seafood and milk: Failed Tri-Cities area food safety checks

The Benton Franklin Health District gave five failing grades for food safety inspections at restaurants and other establishments selling food in the Tri-Cities area from June 6-12.

The health district’s food safety team gave passing marks on 45 inspections, with 23 of those earning perfect scores.

In the district’s routine inspections, businesses or organizations that receive at least 35 points for the more serious red violations are required to have additional inspections and must meet a tougher standard on those.

To pass follow-up inspections, they must have fewer than 25 red points and fewer than 10 repeat red points for previous issues.

Scores of 85 or more red points result in establishments remaining on probation until they pass two follow-up inspections, the first one within 72 hours.

Red violations are those most likely to cause food-borne illnesses, such as not keeping hot food hot enough or cold food cold enough, inadequate handwashing, bare-hand contact with foods or refrigerating meat in a way that could contaminate other food.

Blue violations are low risk factors related to the cleanliness and physical condition of an establishment.

No notice is given before the inspections.

Businesses may have separate inspections of business lines with different health safety risks, such as grocery sales and a deli that prepares food, with one business line passing and another failing.

Information about passed and failed inspections includes only licensed establishments. The health district also responds to complaints of unlicensed pop-up food vendors in Benton and Franklin counties.

To see more inspection results or details of the past week’s inspections, go to inspections.myhealthdepartment.com/bfhd.

For questions or complaints about food safety in Benton or Franklin counties, email contactusfoodsafety@BFHD.WA.GOV.

Food customers may take a survey at bit.ly/FoodSafetyConsumerSurvey, and owners and employees of food establishments may take a survey at bit.ly/FoodSafetyIndustrySurvey.

Failed inspections

Carniceria 3 Pueblos, 2446 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 8 (35 Red, 5 Blue)

Notes: Improper cooling procedures; food-contact surfaces not cleaned or sanitized (meat debris found on two racks that are cleaned only once a week rather than every 24 hours as required); inadequate handwashing facilities (one handwashing sink held bag filled with paper and another was not draining).

Osaka Teriyaki & Sushi, 4101 W. 27th Place, Kennewick, Follow-up June 10 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Room temperature storage violation (cooked chicken stacked by stove was as cool as 115°F).

Papa Ray’s, 245 N. Columbia Ave., Connell, Follow-up June 6 (45 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Improper date marking and disposition of potentially unsafe food (no date on opened, partially cooked ham, plus items without date marking on the self-service salad bar look hard and discolored); cold holding temperatures (some items on salad bar that should be 41°F or less were as warm as 62°); employees failed to wash hands as required (hands washed for 9 seconds rather than required 20 seconds).

The Pick Me Up Coffee Co., 5151 Trowbridge Blvd., Richland, Routine June 10 (40 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Room temperature storage violation (gallon of milk left on counter was 49°F); inadequate written procedures; food worker cards not 100%.

Tomi Sushi & Ramen, 122 S. Ely St., Kennewick, Routine June 12 (35 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Inadequate cold holding temperatures (seafood on prep counter as warm as 53°F rather than 41° or colder); employees failed to wash hands as required (hands not washed before putting on gloves).

Passed inspections

Barnard Griffin Winery, 878 Tulip Lane, Richland, Routine June 11 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Carniceria 3 Pueblos (Commissary), 2446 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 8 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Carniceria La Cabana (Food service), 5426 N. Road 68, Pasco, Follow-up June 11 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Carniceria La Carreta, 1305 W. Fourth Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 8 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Casa Blanca (Mobile), 1305 W. Fourth Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 8 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Conversatio Coffee Roasters, 5426 N. Road 68, Pasco, Routine June 12 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Country Mercantile (Bakery), 5015 Ava Way, Richland, Routine June 10 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Cute Bear Tea, 321 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick, Routine June 10 (0 Red, 5 Blue)

Dallas Gasoline, 5151 Trowbridge Blvd., Richland, Follow-up June 10 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Donitas Restaurant, 1107 W. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine June 11 (20 Red, 0 Blue)

Dovetail Joint Restaurant, 1368 Jadwin Ave., Richland, Routine June 12 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Fiction @ J. Bookwalter, 894 Tulip Lane, Richland, Routine June 11 (20 Red, 0 Blue) (Catering 0 Red, 0 Blue)

Five Guys Burgers & Fries, 2671 Queensgate Drive, Richland, Routine June 8 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Fraternal Order/Eagles, 1205 Bennett Ave., Prosser, Routine June 12 (15 Red, 5 Blue)

Fujiyama Japanese Steak House, 2522 Queensgate Drive, Richland, Follow-up June 10 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

The Habit Burger Grill, 2831 Duportail St., Richland, Routine June 9 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Holiday Inn Express, 680 Wine Country Road, Prosser, Routine June 12 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Hyde Tap and Lounge, 502 Swift Blvd., Richland, Routine June 10 (20 Red, 0 Blue)

Jack in the Box, 701 Wine Country Road, Prosser, Routine June 12 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Kabob House, 2762 Duportail St., Richland, Routine June 8 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

KFC/A&W, 2750 Duportail St., Richland, Routine June 8 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

KR Ranches, 143301 W. North River Road, Prosser, Routine June 6 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

La Palma Crepes N Rolls, 2020 E. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine June 10 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Link’d Hearts Ranch, 10952 Highway 27, Palouse, Routine June 12 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Los Potrillos Seafood & Bar, 2500 W. Kennewick Ave., Suite A, Kennewick, Routine June 8 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Mama’s Java, 1887 Terminal Drive, Richland, Routine June 9 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Marzipan Patisserie, 110 S. Fourth Ave., Pasco, Routine June 6 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

MyFroYo, 2841 Duportail St., Richland, Routine June 9 (5 Red, 3 Blue)

Neiffer Triangle 4 Ranch (Demo), 8505 W. Gage Blvd., Kennewick, Routine June 12 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Pat-N-Tams (Demo), 8505 W. Gage Blvd., Kennewick, Routine June 6 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

The Pizza Box 509, (Event based), Kennewick, Routine June 11 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Rancho Meat Market, 4903 Robert Wayne Drive, Pasco, Routine June 11 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Shaka Cafe, 1230 Meade Ave., Prosser, Routine June 12 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Sharetea, 128 S. Ely St., Kennewick, Routine June 12 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Smokin’ Boar Sausages (Demo), 212 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 7 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Streetz Hibachi, 4812 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 12 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Subway, 7504 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 10 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Sweet Squeeze Lemonade (Event based), Pasco, Routine June 6 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Taco Time, 7530 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 10 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Taqueria 3 Pueblos, 2446 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 8 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Taverna Tagaris, 844 Tulip Lane, Richland, Routine June 11 (20 Red, 0 Blue)

Two If By Seafoods (Demo), The Parkway, Richland, Routine June 12 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Umapine Creamery, 50901 Umapine Road, Milton-Freewater, Routine June 12 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Woo’s Teriyaki Grill, 1379 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine June 12 (25 Red, 5 Blue)