Patch Ashburn, VA --Inspectors from the Virginia Department of Health visited several restaurants in Loudoun County this week. See a sampling of those results below, and visit the health department's website for a complete list of recent inspections.
Miyama Restaurant
20789 Great Falls Plaza #110
Date of inspection: May 24
Dispensing utensils improperly stored between uses.
Great China
9265 Citrine Drive Ste. Q102
Date of inspection: May 23
The cashier was eating in areas where they may contaminate food, clean equipment, utensils or other items needing protection.
Mediterranean Breeze Restaurant
20693 Ashburn Road
Date of inspection: May 22
The shelving in the leader refrigerator is not designed and constructed to be durable.
"Ideally, an operation would have no critical violations, or none which are not corrected immediately and not repeated. In our experience, it is unrealistic to expect that a complex, full-service food operation can routinely avoid any violations," according to department of health website.
The site continues: "Keep in mind that any inspection report is a 'snapshot' of the day and time of the inspection. On any given day, a restaurant could have fewer or more violations than noted in the report. An inspection conducted on any given day may not be representative of the overall, long term cleanliness of an establishment."
Full reports can be accessed on the health department's website.
· A *core item* "usually relates to general sanitation, operational controls, sanitation standard operating procedures (SSOPs), facilities or structures, equipment design, or general maintenance."
· A *priority item* is "a provision in this Code whose application contributes directly to the elimination, prevention or reduction to an acceptable level, hazards associated with food-borne illness or injury and there is no other provision that more directly controls the hazard," and "includes items with a quantifiable measure to show control of hazards such as cooking, reheating, cooling, hand washing."
· A *priority foundation* item "includes an item that requires the purposeful incorporation of specific actions, equipment or procedures by industry management to attain control of risk factors that contribute to food-borne illness or injury such as personnel training, infrastructure or necessary equipment, HACCP plans, documentation or record keeping, and labeling." Reported by Patch 1 hour ago.