{"id":221329,"date":"2026-05-06T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221329\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:00:36","slug":"dairy-queen-violations-carmichaels-pa-mold-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221329\/","title":{"rendered":"Dairy Queen Violations: Carmichaels PA Mold Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dairy Queen location in Southwestern Pennsylvania was hit with several health violations after in inspection on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The PA Department of Agriculture\u2019s Bureau of Food Safety says the Dairy Queen on West George Street in Carmichaels was hit with six violations following the inspection.<\/p>\n<p>Ruled \u201cout of compliance\u201d, inspectors say they found a \u201cblack mold like substance\u201d inside of an ice machine. The unit was shut down and the ice was thrown away.<\/p>\n<p>Other issues include a \u201cheavy build-up\u201d of food inside a sandwich unit, old, splattered food inside a microwave, old, splattered food build-up in a cooler, area around lids for toppings with \u201cheavy build-up of old encrusted food\u201d and a busted plastic tray for hot hamburger storage.<\/p>\n<p>Floors throughout the facility (kitchen, walk-in cooler, walk-in freezer) have heavy accumulation of dirt and other debris.<\/p>\n<p>There were also other issues including a black mold substance in the caulking along the back of a three-bowl sink and no cold running water in the hand washing sink.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the report and any updates to the restaurant\u2019s status <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pafoodsafety.pa.gov\/Web\/Inspection\/PublicInspectionSearch.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. The Dept. of Agriculture says the facility has until May 11 to make corrections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dairy Queen location in Southwestern Pennsylvania was hit with several health violations after in inspection on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4843,87219,9,24,63,87220,122,124,123,87221],"class_list":["post-221329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-dairy-queen","tag-health-violation","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pa-department-of-agriculture","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-restaurant-inspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}