Food Safety Report: Ciales Poultry, 2141 W Armitage Ave , Chicago, Il, USA.

2141 West Armitage Avenue, Chicago, 60647 Illinois, United States

Report date: Sep 20, 2023
3. Management, food employee and conditional employee; knowledge, responsibilities and reporting
- comments: observed no written employee health policy on the premises. Management instructed to have a signed employee health policy for each employee. Priority foundation violation 7-38-012. Citation issued.

5. Procedures for responding to vomiting and diarrheal events
- comments: no clean up supplies on the premises to respond to a vomit or diarrheal event. Management instructed to provide and maintain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-005. Citation issued.

10. Adequate handwashing sinks properly supplied and accessible
- comments: observed no hand soap provided at the exposed hand washing sink next to the 3 compartment sink and in the customer washroom. Management instructed to provide hand soap at all hand washing sinks at all times. Priority foundation violation 7-38-030(c). Citation issued.

16. Food-contact surfaces: cleaned & sanitized
- comments: no sanitizer was provided on the premises to sanitize equipment and utensils. Management instructed to provide sanitizer at all times to sanitize equipment and utensils. Priority violation 7-38-005. Citation issued.

38. Insects, rodents, & animals not present
- comments: observed unscreened windows open on the 2nd floor allowing the entrance of flying pests. Management instructed to screen all windows or keep them closed to prevent the entry of flying pests.

38. Insects, rodents, & animals not present
- comments: observed over 600 live small flying insects throughout the premises on walls, ceilings, on whole watermelons, animal cages, flying in and around animal feed in the basement, 1st and 2nd floors. Also observed approx. 25 live house flies flying throughout the premises on the 1st floor and 2nd floor. Also observed 10 mouse droppings on the floor of the 2nd floor storage and hvac closets. 1 live cockroach was observed in the 2nd floor storage closet. Additional pest control service is needed to eliminate the pest infestation throughout the premises. Must clean and remove all rodent droppings from all affected areas. Priority violation 7-38-020(a). Citation issued.

38. Insects, rodents, & animals not present
- comments: observed no pest control log book provided from southwest pest control company. Management instructed to provide a pest control log book from a licensed pest control company with all required documents and pest inspections. Priority foundation violation 7-38-020(c). Citation issued.

38. Insects, rodents, & animals not present
- comments: observed dead cockroaches and flies on the floor of the walk-in cooler on the windowsills and on the floor of the storage areas on the 2nd floor. Management instructed to clean and remove all dead insects from all affected areas.

39. Contamination prevented during food preparation, storage & display
- comments: observed multiple hanging fly strips located in the food preparation areas and behind the front counter. Management instructed to remove all hanging fly strips from food preparation areas. Also observed several birds and rabbits out of their cages on the premises. Management instructed that all animals must be caged at all times.

47. Food & non-food contact surfaces cleanable, properly designed, constructed & used
- comments: observed garbage bags used to cover animal carcasses in the 2nd floor walk-in freezer. Management instructed to use proper food grade covering or wrapping.

48. Warewashing facilities: installed, maintained & used; test strips
- comments: no sanitizing test strips were available on the premises to measure the sanitizer concentration at the 3 compartment sink. Management instructed to provide and maintain at all times. Priority foundation violation 7-38-005. Citation issued.

49. Non-food/food contact surfaces clean
- comments: clean and sanitize all horizontal surfaces in the food preparation areas. Clean and sanitize all animal cages used to house live animals. Cages have a heavy build up of soil and animal feces. Clean the dirty light shields in the food prep areas.

51. Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices
- comments: tighten the faucet for the customer washroom hand washing sink. Repair the leaking drain line of the exposed hand washing sink in the 2nd floor.

55. Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean
- comments: observed empty animal cages stored outside in the parking lot. Management instructed that all cages must be stored indoors.

55. Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean
- comments: clean the floor drains with debris throughout.

55. Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean
- comments: debris and dried animal residue (blood and feathers) on ceiling in processing areas. Ceiling in front meat counter area not clean. Must clean and maintain ceilings.

56. Adequate ventilation & lighting; designated areas used
- comments: observed broken light shields in the walk-in cooler and a hanging light shield above the 3 compartment sink. Management instructed to replace broken light shields and maintain existing.

57. All food employees have food handler training
- comments: observed a food handling employee without a food handler certificate. Management instructed that all food handling employees must show proof of training.

60. Previous core violation corrected
- comments: previous core violations from report #2523950 on 8/12/21 not corrected: 36 - some coolers missing thermometers. Instructed manager must provide working thermometers for all coolers. 49 - observed accumulated dirt/grime build up on interior/exterior of sinks at 2nd floor prep/storage area. Must clean all sinks and maintain. 55 - observed accumulated dirt/debris on floor throughout 3-compartment sink room, caged chicken room and throughout 2nd floor prep/storage area. Must detail clean floor and walls throughout. Priority foundation violation 7-42-090. Citation issued.

Source: chicago.gov