Indian Ocean Grocery & Halal

• official resultFail
• resultFail
• inspection typeRetail Food
• failed findings5
• critical findings1

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Failed findings

• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
  Inspector note: 3 bay sink/provide institutional sanitizer/remove regular clorox
  code 20-4-703.11*** · critical food-safety factorstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
  Inspector note: retail/remove all cardboard from shelving walk in/resurface worn wooden shelving
  code 15-4-202.16* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
  Inspector note: provide proper sanitizing container for all wiping cloths
  code 21-3-304.14* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Official wording: Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
  Inspector note: restroom/clean dust from ceiling vent
  code 37-6-501.11-.12* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting
  Inspector note: meat room/replace burnt out light
  code 38-6-303.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail

Checks marked passed

• ✓Food Container Labels
  Inspector note: retail/properly label all food containers
  code 02-3-602.11-.12/3-302.12* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Food Protection
  Inspector note: provide employee only signage/no customers beyond register
  code 08-3-305-307.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
  Inspector note: handsink/provide employee must wash hands signage
  code 32-6-301.11-02.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Premises Maintained
  Inspector note: clean/organize mop sink area
  code 42-6-501.113/.114* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Fail on May 26, 2016: 5 findings recurred. 4 previous findings did not recur.

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About this record

This record comes from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: Analyze Boston.