{"id":178347,"date":"2026-04-28T16:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178347\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:14:49","slug":"health-violation-ck-market-rodent-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178347\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Violation: CK Market Rodent issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A market in the Pittsburgh-area is under Consumer Alert after an inspection by the Allegheny County Health Department.<\/p>\n<p>The CK Market Sharpsburg on North Main Street in Sharpsburg had 11 violations after an inspection on Monday, including two considered \u201chigh-risk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Those high-risk violations are due to evidence of a rodent infestation throughout the store.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors found containers of ramen noodles \u201cadulterated\u201d by rodents, \u201ctoo many to count\u201d rodent droppings inside the cabinet of a slush machine, in soda cabinet and under the bottom shelf of food shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Droppings were also found on cans of Spaghetti O\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Two dead rodents were found under the slush machine.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors also found the outer door sweep on the storage room door was worn, allowing rodents to enter the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors say pest control must provide services once a week, all areas with rodent droppings must be disinfected, all food adulterated by rodents must be thrown away and more.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the inspection is due to a change of ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Department says the issues must be resolved or the store will be ordered to close. <\/p>\n<p>You can see the latest status of the store and the full inspection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleghenycounty.us\/Services\/Health-Department\/Food-Safety\/Alerts-Closures-and-Enforcements\/Consumer-Alerts-and-Closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A market in the Pittsburgh-area is under Consumer Alert after an inspection by the Allegheny County Health Department.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3400,25108,1057,25139,73,75,74,41985],"class_list":["post-178347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county-health-department","tag-consumer-alert","tag-health","tag-mice","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rodent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}