Hoopa Valley Elementary School

11500 Hwy 96, Hoopa

Routine Inspection
02. Food safety certification, food handler card compliance

Conditions Observed: Food Safety Manager (FSM) certificate not available for review during inspection (Food Services Manager on vacation and office was locked and staff did not have access). Able to verify certificate is still current per last inspection report (Rebecca Lollich, exp. date 3/20/2024). Please ensure that FSM certificate is available for review at all times; thank you.

ROACHY SAYS:

“Food facilities that prepare, handle, or serve non-prepackaged potentially hazardous food, shall have an owner or employee who has passed an aproved food safety certification examination. Food handlers that prepare, handle, or serve non-prepackaged potentially hazardous food, shall obtain a valid Food Handler Card within 30 days after date of hire. (113947.1-113947.5, 113948)”

Reinspection

ROACHY SAYS:

“Ooo! Welcome to Sanitarytown! Population: Hoopa Valley Elementary School! I see lots of happy hungry mouths in this establishment's near future!!”

Routine Inspection
08. Proper hot and cold holding temperatures.

Conditions Observed: Tuna salad (dated 5/14) and cooked chicken chunks (in bags; no date noted) in the walk-in cooler were measured at 44.2°F and 42.6°F, respectively. The temperature display on the outside of the unit was reading 37°F. Please adjust/service/repair unit to ensure that it holds potentially-hazardous foods (PHF) at or below 41°F at all times. Please move PHF to a different refrigeration unit for cold holding until this repair is completed; thank you.

ROACHY SAYS:

“Except during preparation, cooking, cooling, transportation to or from a retail food facility for a period of less than thirty minutes, when time is used as the public health control, or as otherwise specified, potentially hazardous foods shall be maintained at or below 41F or at or above 135F. The following foods may be held at or below 45F: raw shell eggs, unshucked live molluscan shellfish, pasteurized milk and pasteurized milk products in original sealed containers, potentially hazardous foods held during transportation. Potentially hazardous foods held for dispensing in serving lines and salad bars may be held at 45F, not to exceed 12 hours in a 24 hour period, if unused portions are discarded. Food preparation shall not exceed two cumulative hours without a return to the required holding temperatures. (113996, 113998, 114037, 114343(a))”

15. Food contact surfaces: clean and sanitized.

Conditions Observed: No chlorine was detected in the mechanical warewash machine solution, even immediately after running the machine. Please service/repair warewash machine to ensure that sanitizer solution contains 50ppm chlorine or higher concentration at all times. Please use only manual warewashing (3-compartment sink) to wash/rinse/sanitize utensils (note that manual warewash requires sanitizer at 100ppm chlorine or higher) until the mechanical warewash machine is repaired and confirmed to be supplying the correct concentration of sanitizer solution; thank you. Note that this is a major violation requiring reinspection. Please provide evidence to this office that the warewash machine has been repaired, including evidence that the sanitizer solution now measures 50ppm chlorine or above, in order to avoid an on-site reinspection; thank you.

ROACHY SAYS:

“Food-contact surfaces and utensils shall be clean to sight and touch. Food-contact surfaces and multiservice utensils shall be effectively washed, rinsed, and sanitized to remove or completely loosen soils by use of manual or mechanical methods. Precleaning may be required. Manual sanitization shall be accomplished during the final rinse by contact with solution containing 100 ppm available chlorine, 200 ppm quaternary ammonium, or another approved sanitizer. Mechanical sanitization shall be accomplished in the final rinse by achieving a utensil surface temperature of 160F or by contact with solution containing 50 ppm available chlorine, 200 ppm quaternary ammonium, or another approved sanitizer. After cleaning and sanitizing, equipment and utensils shall be air dried. Mechancial warewash machines must be approved and installed and operated according to manufacturer's specifications. Food contact surfaces, utensils, and equipment shall be cleaned and sanitized at the following times: before each use with different type of raw food of animal origin, when changing from raw food to ready to eat food, between uses with raw produce and potentially hazardous food, before using a thermometer, and any time during the operation when contamination may have occurred. Warewash sinks used to wash wiping cloths, wash produce, or thaw food must be cleaned and sanitized before and after these uses. Equipment, food contact surfaces, and utensils must be cleaned and sanitized throughout the day at least every four hours or as needed to prevent contamination. (114097, 114099.1, 114099.2, 114099.4, 114099.6, 114099.7, 114101, 114105, 114109, 114111, 114113, 114115(a,c), 114117, 114125(b), 114141)”

35. Warewashing: installed, maintained, used, Adequate Means to measure sanitizer

Conditions Observed: Test strips were not available in the facility for measuring the concentration of chlorine in sanitizer solution used for warewashing. Please obtain test strips and ensure that they are available in the facility at all times for use in monitoring chlorine sanitizer concentrations; thank you.

ROACHY SAYS:

“Facilities that prepare food shall be equipped with a manual warewashing sink that has at least three compartments with two integral metal drainboards, except as specified in 114099(c). A warewashing sink shall not be used for handwashing except as specified in 114125(a). Sink compartments shall be large enough to accommodate immersion of the largest equipment and utensils used. Testing materials shall be provided to adequately measure the applicable sanitization method used during manual or mechanical warewashing. (114067(f,g), 114099, 114099.3, 114099.5, 114101(a), 114101.1, 114101.2, 114103, 114107, 114125(a))”

Routine Inspection

ROACHY SAYS:

“Zero violations! Now that's how you keep 'em coming back for more! I'll be sending all my human friends to Hoopa Valley Elementary School! Yum yum!!”

Routine Inspection
31. Food storage; food storage containers identified.

Conditions Observed: Observed chicken product stored in black trash bag, product freeze dried. Product Voluntarily discarded. Discussed proper NSF bags to store food.

ROACHY SAYS:

“Adequate and suitable space shall be provided for the storage of food. Food shall be protected from contamination by storing the food in a clean, dry location, where it is not exposed to splash, dust, vermin, or other forms of contamination or adulteration, and at least six inches above the floor. Food shall not be stored in any of the following ways: in locker rooms, toilet rooms, dressing rooms, refuse rooms, mechanical rooms, under sewer lines that are not shielded to intercept potential drips, under leaking water lines, including leaking automatic fire sprinklers heads, or under lines on which water has condensated, under open stairwells or under sources of contamination. Working containers holding food or food ingredients that are removed from their original packages for use in the food facility shall be identified with the common name of the food. Non-prepackaged food may not be stored in direct contact with undrained ice. Products that are held by the permit holder for credit, redemption, or return to the distributor, such as damaged, spoiled, or recalled products shall be segregated and held in designated areas that are separated from food, equipment, utensils, linens, and single-use articles. (114047, 141049, 114051, 114053, 114055, 114067(h), 114069(b))”

Routine Inspection

ROACHY SAYS:

“Both patrons and the health department agree! This place sets the standard for Humboldt food facility cleanliness! All hail Hoopa Valley Elementary School!!”

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