Unwashed hands, food too warm. Failed Tri-Cities food safety inspections

The Benton Franklin Health District gave two failing grades for food safety inspections at restaurants and other establishments selling food in the Tri-Cities area from June 13-19.

The health district’s food safety team gave passing marks on 20 inspections, with 10 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

Richland National Little League, 350 Keene Road, Richland, Routine June 13 (65 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Improper cooling procedures; lack of adequate active managerial control; hands not washed as required; potentially unsafe food or high risk food without date marked (no details in online report).

Tony’s Mexican Food, 5730 W. Van Giesen St., West Richland, Routine June 16 (50 Red, 5 Blue)

Notes: No certified food protection manager on staff; cold holding temperature too warm (cheese and shredded cabbage as warm as 47 degrees rather than required 41 degrees or colder); hands not washed as required (food worker grabbed bag of tortillas to start food service without washing hands); inadequate handwashing facilities (worker used sink reserved for produce washing to wash hands).

Passed inspections

Dad’s Dream Bakery & Cakes, 807 Wine Country Road, Grandview, Routine June 14 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

El Fat Cat Grill, 539 N. Edison St., Kennewick, Routine June 16 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Fresh Squeezed Lemonade Cart, 109 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 18 (0 Red, 5 Blue)

Jack In The Box, 2722 W. 10th Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 15 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Lep-re-kon Harvest Foods (Restaurant), 471 Wine Country Road, Prosser, Routine June 18 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Love’s Travel Stop (Food service), 3602 N. Capitol Ave., Pasco, Routine June 18 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

McDonald’s, 2721 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 15 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

McDonald’s, 103 Merlot Drive, Prosser, Routine June 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Miss Tamale, 701B The Parkway, Richland, Routine June 14 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Miss Tamale, 710B The Parkway, Richland, Routine June 14 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Pineapple Pastries, 407 Wine Country Road, Prosser, Routine June 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Richland National Little League-Badger, 350 Keene Road, Richland, Follow-up June 14 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Salsamix (Demo), 422 Stanfield, Routine June 14 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Spudnuts Shop, 3315 W. Court St., Pasco, Routine June 18 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Taco Bell, 1825 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine June 16 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

The Mill, Event Based, Kennewick, Routine June 16 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Vieyra’s Mac & More, 608 Williams Blvd., Richland, Routine June 16 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Voodoo Signature Spices & Sauces, 4005 Des Moines Lane, Pasco, Routine June 13 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Wake Up Call, 2525 N. 20th Ave., Pasco, Routine June 18 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Wild Burrito, 451 Wine Country Road, Prosser, Routine June 18 (15 Red, 0 Blue)