{"id":424931,"date":"2026-10-11T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424931\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:54:07","slug":"miami-supermarket-trashes-eggs-rice-meat-during-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424931\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami supermarket trashes eggs, rice, meat during inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Myriad violations, from food that should\u2019ve been trashed weeks earlier to filthy equipment, befouled the state inspection of a West Miami-Dade supermarket this week.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s visit to the Bravo Supermarket at 13659 SW 26th St. by Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspectors Wenndy Ayerdis and Luis Lopez wasn\u2019t the first time this Bravo spectacularly failed inspection. While the last inspection, in January 2025, wasn\u2019t a 20-page description of inept supermarket operation<\/a> as Monday\u2019s was, it was 13 pages of violations common and uncommon.<\/p>\n

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State records say this Bravo is owned by J H Meat Corp., a company run by President Jose Torres<\/a> and Secretary Fredys Torres.<\/p>\n

What follows is some of what Inspectors Ayerdis and Lopez found Monday.<\/p>\n

In the food service, kitchen and meat areas, \u201cFood employees did not wash hands after leaving and returning to the various processing areas to handle food items or clean utensils, or after touching their face\/body.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, in those same areas, food employees didn\u2019t understand or didn\u2019t care about the limits implied in \u201csingle-use gloves.\u201d They kept on the same gloves as they went in and out of the processing areas, after they \u201ctouched unclean equipment\u201d and \u201cbetween changing tasks (washing utensils and serving food).\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite being a supermarket with paper towels for sale, the handwash sinks in the food service area, the kitchen and meat areas didn\u2019t have paper towels. The food service area sink didn\u2019t have soap, either.<\/p>\n

A food service area worker wasn\u2019t \u201cwearing a hair restraint while present in areas with open food handling.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was \u201cblack, mold-like growth encrusted on the interior housing, ice-making portion and chute of the ice machine located next to the receiving door.\u201d A Stop Use Order got slapped on this ice machine, an order that was released on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The \u201cice scoop was placed on top of the ice machine with no protection against contamination.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meat area, \u201cold, brown food residue was encrusted in the corners of the bottom portion of the band saw and on the interior housing and auger of the meat grinder.\u201d Similarly, over in the meat food service area, there was \u201cold food residue encrusted on the corners of the bottom portion of the band saw and on the blades of the tenderizer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Once deli meats are opened, they\u2019ve got to be used or gone in seven days. In this Bravo\u2019s deli case and reach in coolers, there was smoked turkey with trash dates from Sept. 26 through Oct. 1; mortadella pistachio that should\u2019ve been gone Sept. 26 through Sept. 29; mortadella Italiana carando still present despite trash dates from Aug. 26 through Aug. 31; serrano ham gran reserva with disposal dates from Sept. 29 through Monday, the inspection day; ham pierna latino that should\u2019ve been trashed on Sept. 21; and sembrador ham vicky latino, still there after Sept. 25.<\/p>\n

The inspectors slapped Stop Sales on all of the above.<\/p>\n

Also, the inspectors noted Bravo \u201creceived a delivery of milk gallons, of which they did not check temperatures. (Bravo) allowed half the merchandise to be stored in the dairy walk-in cooler prior to the inspector verifying internal temperatures of 51 degrees in the milk.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s 10 degrees too warm. The inspection said, \u201cmanagement refused the milk shipment only after the inspector informed them of the internal temperatures of the milk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, in the dairy walk-in cooler, a \u201ccardboard box was placed directly on top of uncovered bread pudding…\u201d Stop Sale on the bread pudding.<\/p>\n

\u201cRaw meat was stored in buckets not meant for food contact.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A food service employee \u201cused paper towels to dry a sanitized milk cup,\u201d thus unsanitizing the cup. Sanitized dishes, untensils and equipment have to air dry.<\/p>\n

Another employee \u201cwashed and rinsed various pots and metal containers, but did not sanitize them prior to using.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMultiple wet wiping cloths were placed on preparation tables and shelving units, instead of being held in sanitizer between uses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMultiple metal pans and trays were found stacked on top of each other, not inverted, and exposed to ceiling dust accumulation,\u201d in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Foam trays used for meat sitting on shelves above equipment weren\u2019t in their original packaging, which keeps them clean.<\/p>\n

There were \u201cblack score marks on multiple cutting boards inside the kitchen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also in the kitchen, \u201cLiquid food residue and grease deposits were accumulated on the sides of the stoves and fryers. Heavy grease accumulation and droplets were present on fire suppression lines above the stoves and fryers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLiquid food residue was accumulated on the walls and floors, beneath and behind stoves, the fryer, and the oven.\u201d<\/p>\n

The kitchenware wash sink\u2019s cold water handle was broken, \u201cnot allowing the water to be turned off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also broken: reach-in coolers in the food service area and the kitchen. Their one job is to keep food at or under 41 degrees, but they brought less cool than someone telling Dad jokes in a beige Chrysler. The food service area cooler measured 47 to 49 degrees and the kitchen cooler measured 53 to 54 degrees.<\/p>\n

That brought a drizzle of Stop Sales on the food inside the coolers, including deli meats, bacon, garlic, cut tomatoes, diced ham and salami.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the food service steam table and hot box had the opposite problem \u2014 unable to keep its food contents at or above 135 degrees. Here came the monsoon of Stop Sales on boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, fried eggs, pumpkin, boniato, sausage, fried sweet plantains, fried rice, fried yuca, boiled banana, ham croquetas, cheese pastelitos, beef pastelitos, guava and cheese pastelitos, beef empanadas, pan de bono and tequenos.<\/p>\n

Watermelon in a retail area reach-in cooler measured 44 degrees. Stop Sale. Basura.<\/p>\n


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Since 1989, David J. Neal\u2019s domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Myriad violations, from food that should\u2019ve been trashed weeks earlier to filthy equipment, befouled the state inspection of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-424931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}