Tropical Foods/El Platanero

• official resultFail
• resultFail
• inspection typeRetail Food
• failed findings3
• critical findings0

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Failed findings

• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
  Inspector note: meat room and milk walk in/repair leak from ceiling
  code 29-5-201/02.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
  Inspector note: milk walk in/remove stagnate water from floor
  code 36-6-501.11-.12* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting
  Inspector note: freezer display case/replace burnt out lights
  code 38-6-303.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail

Checks marked passed

• ✓Food Protection
  Inspector note: retail freezers/remove ice build up from all food items in freezer meat display/do not overstock meats in case frozen chicken wing case/remove all products with freezer burn meat freezer/properly cover/wrap all foods
  code 08-3-305-307.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Non-Food Contact Surfaces
  Inspector note: retail/defrost all freezer cases meat room/resurface all rusted attachments/door locks and resurface worn woosen trim in meat room
  code 15-4-202.16* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Equipment Thermometers
  Inspector note: halal case/egg display case/aisle 5/produce display and reach in/provide accurate internal thermometers to register 41 degrees or below
  code 17-4-204.112/.115* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
  Inspector note: clean all silver portable carts
  code 23-4-602.13* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
  Inspector note: customer restroom/provide covered waste receptacle
  code 32-6-301.11-02.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Toilet Enclosed Clean
  Inspector note: customer restroom/clean walls behind toilet
  code 32-6-501.11-.12/6-202.14* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Official wording: Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
  Inspector note: 3rd floor walk in/clean ceiling to remove mold build up and replace missing wall cover at door
  code 37-6-501.11-.12* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Fail on March 1, 2013: 3 findings recurred. 7 previous findings did not recur.

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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.

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