COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A pizza shop faced Columbus Public Health Monday for multiple critical food violations.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
Columbus Public Health (CPH) recommended a local pizza shop’s license be suspended for at least three days after four inspections with numerous critical violations.
Tommy’s Pizza, located at 3020 E. Broad St., was inspected several times during a four-month period and had numerous critical food-safety violations.
CPH inspectors were at Tommy’s Pizza Thursday, May 21, and found one critical violation: cold-holding of potentially hazardous foods.
A second inspection was held Tuesday, June 9, and two critical violations were found, including violations of cold-holding of potentially dangerous foods and unsafe food was not discarded.
A yellow sign was posted at the shop Friday, June 12.
A yellow sign means the business is in the enforcement process due to uncorrected critical violations found during follow-up inspections.
A follow-up inspection was held at the shop Friday, June 19.
There were seven critical violations during that inspection:
- Violations of cold-holding of potentially dangerous foods.
- Unsafe food was not discarded.
- Two violations of a food employee touching ready-to-eat foods with bare hands.
- Food employee did not wash hands in situations that required it.
- Person in charge could not describe relationship between food-borne illness and bare-hand contact with ready-to-eat foods.
- Ready-to-eat food not properly date-marked.
Another inspection was held Wednesday, July 8, with three critical violations, including violations of cold-holding of potentially dangerous foods, food employee touching ready-to-eat foods with bare hands and potentially hazardous foods not being reheated to the proper temperature.
CPH recommended Tommy’s Pizza’s license be suspended for at least three days and the shop be placed on increased monitoring for 120 days.
CPH may lift the suspension after three days if an inspection shows no outstanding critical violations and the license holder or person in charge attends a safety workshop within the last 90 days.
The restaurant in question is not part of Tommy's Pizza, Inc.
Go to http://www.publichealth.columbus.gov to search for businesses with food-safety violations.
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