{"id":264127,"date":"2026-08-12T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264127\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:20:09","slug":"grocery-store-ordered-closed-in-pittsburgh-after-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264127\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery store ordered closed in Pittsburgh after inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grocery store in the Pittsburgh area has been ordered closed by the Allegheny County Health Department after an inspection on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>An inspection shows Yard and Abroad Caribbean Grocery on Park Avenue in Wilkinsburg was hit with nearly 10 violations during the inspection.<\/p>\n<p>Three of those violations are considered high-risk.<\/p>\n<p>The high-risk violations include food products for sale that come from an unknown source.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors found some products \u201ccontaining sea moss\u201d found in a cooler. Also, unmarked packages of raw meat were found in a freeze and unmarked package of cheese were found in the cooler.<\/p>\n<p>Raw chicken was found in a Coke cooler temped at 47 degrees. The proper cold-holding temperature is 41 degrees or lower.<\/p>\n<p>That chicken was thrown away.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors also found raw meat products that were being sold \u201cunpackaged in the upright cooler and freezer for customer self-service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marked a medium risk, files were found inside the store.<\/p>\n<p>To see the full inspection report and any updates to the restaurant\u2019s status visit the Health Department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleghenycounty.us\/Services\/Health-Department\/Food-Safety\/Alerts-Closures-and-Enforcements\/Consumer-Alerts-and-Closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A grocery store in the Pittsburgh area has been ordered closed by the Allegheny County Health Department after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3400,111540,41947,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-264127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county-health-department","tag-allegheny-county-health-inspection","tag-ordered-closed","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264127","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=264127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}