Rodents, roaches, flies found in South Florida’s worst restaurant inspections

Miami Herald · David J. Neal ·

State inspectors also found handwashing problems and food stored so poorly, it was “temperature abuse” at Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach eateries.

Flies in peppers and a bain-marie with rodent dung and a dead roach were among the inspector-eye catching violations among eight South Florida restaurants shut down by inspection.

We don’t do the inspections in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties and we don’t decide who gets inspected. The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation does that, sometimes after consumer complaints filed to the agency’s website.

All the restaurants on this week’s Sick and Shut Down List passed re-inspection or callback inspection on the first attempt to get back in business.

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