• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 10, 2007 →
• address52 Kneeland St, Boston 02111

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Is Ming Kee Fresh Poultry clean?

Ming Kee Fresh Poultry is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 10, 2007. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Ming Kee Fresh Poultry?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 10, 2007, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

Ming Kee Fresh Poultry inspection and administrative history

Ming Kee Fresh Poultry has 6 inspections on record going back to August 9, 2007.

Ming Kee Fresh Poultry vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 4% of them.

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How Boston grades restaurants

Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 10, 2007. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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