Mold on empanadas, rust and grime on a grinder. A Kendall Sedano’s fails inspection

A Sedano’s in Kendall had things growing on food that you don’t want normally growing on food, and those things were seen by the Florida Department of Agriculture during a May 9 inspection.

And that’s the most visible reason Sedano’s had a South Florida store that failed inspection, just as Winn-Dixie did the week before and Publix the week before that.

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When Yuko Kim dropped by the West Kendall Sedano’s at 16255 SW 88th St., there were “cream-colored growths” on raw chicken breasts on a tray in a walk-in cooler.

In that same walk-in cooler, the inspector saw “green and white mold-like growths ... on mini chicken empanadas packaged into numerous to-go containers.” The empenadas were packaged April 19 and April 26 — 20 days and 13 days, respectively, before the inspection. That’s well beyond the seven-day limit.

An open package of mortadella lunch meat lacked any date marking. It got tossed. And containers of tamales weren’t covered in the walk-in freezer.

Inspector Kim said he saw washed equipment and utensils being dipped into the sanitizer in the kitchen and being immediately pulled out, like an ice cream bar getting its chocolate coating, instead of leaving it in there the required one minute.

The ispection also noted “old, yellow food residue encrusted on all blades of the tenderizer next to the tabletop grinder” in the deli section. That got a Stop Use Order, as did the grinder for the “rust with food residue and mud-like grime encrusted” inside an attachment.

Also getting sidelined by a Stop Use Order was the ware washing sink in the deli. It wasn’t dispensing sanitizer.

Kitchen metal trays and a cutting board put on a drain rack as clean had “food residue found encrusted” on them.

Out in the retail area, where food needs to be kept below 41 degrees to prevent being bacteria storage food, a tuna wrap, media noche, tuna salad and chicken sandwiches all measured too warm. They got tossed in the garbage.