Each month the Harford County Health Department conducts routine inspections of 1,893 food service facilities (936 permanent food service facilities and 957 temporary food service facilities). Some pass, some fail. These are their stories…
Below are all the critical health inspection violations for Harford County in November 2014:
7-Eleven Store #11614
911 Ontario Street
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper hot temperature.
7-Eleven Store #29978
1020 Gateway Road
Edgewood, MD 21040
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper hot temperature.
Aberdeen Korean Restaurant
17 Aberdeen Shopping Plaza
Aberdeen, MD 21001
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be adequately cooked to the appropriate temperature.
Abingdon Elementary School
399 Singer Road
Abingdon, MD 21009
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper hot temperature.
Active Day of Harford
1361 Brass Mill Road, Suites B & C
Belcamp, MD 21017
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper hot temperature.
Bonefish Grill
696 J Bel Air Road #108
Bel Air, MD 21014
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Broom’s Bloom Dairy
1700 S. Fountain Green Road
Bel Air, MD 21015
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
C. Milton Wright High School
1301 N. Fountain Green Road
Bel Air, MD 21014
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Checker’s
1926 Pulaski Higjhway
Edgewood, MD 21040
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Chesapeake Grill
913 Pulaski Highway
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
Violations: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature. Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper hot temperature.
Church Creek Elementary School
4299 Church Creek Road
Belcamp, MD 21017
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Edgewood High School
2415 Willoughby Beach Road
Edgewood, MD 21040
Violations: Potentially hazardous food must be properly cooled. Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper hot temperature.
Emmorton Exxon
1804 Edgewod Road
Edgewood, MD 21040
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper hot temperature.
Frank’s Pizza
37 West Belair Avenue
Aberdeen, MD 21001
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Great Wall
2244-B Hanson Road
Edgewood, MD 21040
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Halsey’s Store
707 Old Pylesville Road
Pylesville, MD 21132
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Harford County Detention Center
1030 North Rock Spring Road
Bel Air, MD 21014
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Herb’s On The Curb
4000 Chapel Road
Hvre de Grace, MD 21078
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Hibachi Express
3709 Pulaski Highway
Abingdon, MD 21009
Violations: Food must be protected from contamination, spoilage and adulteration. Potentially hazardous food must be properly cooled.
High’s #2
4525 Norrisville Road
White Hall, MD 21161
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Italian Sensations – Fallston
2316 Bel Air Road
Fallston, MD 21047
Violations: Potentially hazardous food must be properly cooled. Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Lin’s Hibachi
1007 Pulaski Highway
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Looney’s Pub North
312 South Main Street
Bel Air, MD 21014
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be properly cooled.
Magnolia Elementary School
901 Trimble Road
Joppa, MD 21085
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Magnolia Middle School
299 Fort Hoyle Road
Joppa, MD 21085
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
North Harford Middle School
112 Pylesville Road
Pylesville, MD 21132
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper hot temperature.
Pat’s Pizzeria Havre de Grace
1201 Revolution Street
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Patterson Mill Middle/High School
85 Patterson Mill Road
Bel Air, MD 21015
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Peony Garden
23 W. Belair Avenue
Aberdeen, MD 21001
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Royal Farm Store #70
500 Joppa Farm Road
Joppatowne, MD 21085
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Royal Farm Store #93
1915 Belair Road
Fallston, MD 21047
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Roye-Williams Elementary School
201 Oakington Road
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper hot temperature.
Scoops Corner Cafe and Deli
34 West Bel Air Avenue
Aberdeen, MD 21001
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be properly cooled.
Seafood Stop
1607 Belair Road
Fallston, MD 21047
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be properly cooled.
Slices Pizzeria and Grill
549 Baltimore Pike
Bel Air, MD 21014
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Subway #3849
3473 Merchant Boulevard, Ste. E
Abingdon, MD 21009
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper hot temperature.
Subway Aberdeen
1020-C Beards Hill Road
Aberdeen, MD 21001
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
Villa Maria School of Harford County
1370 Brass Mill Road
Belcamp, MD 21017
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper hot temperature.
WaWa Food Market #8500
204 Connolly Road
Fallston, MD 21047
Violation: Potentially hazardous food must be held at proper cold temperature.
The full food facility inspection report is available here.
Is John Ryan still the cook at the detention center? Plug the cooler in John
How much are we paying these clowns? What a waste of taxpayer money.
This government agency shouldn’t exist. It’s a complete waste of money. This should be ran a by private companie. If the market calls for it. If the restaurant continues to get people sick then nobody will go there and they will shut down. Simple market principles. By having a mandated agency you’re allowing restaurants that might potentially get somebody sick everyday fix their cooler or heat their food up properly for that day. Then they go back and do what they were doing before you came in.
Ryan,
The Dept of Health is a state chartered agency, part of HCG. It is charged with many public health duties and responsibilities with proper food management as if it was unchecked could potentially cause heath issues. The law was legislated and the process was created to solve a problem that the private market is unwilling or unable to enforce. It isn’t the biggest issue facing the marketplace and I agree that there could be a private market process to regulate it with less government interference but as it stands today, the restaurant industry isn’t very good at controlling itself either. Yes, we could leave it to people to get sick, die or get food poisoning and the ensuing civil lawsuits to follow just to get the government out of it, but it seems to me like the system works well enough. Just the threat of a big stick is sometimes needed to create a sense that food establishments can’t just cut corners and serve contaminated food without fear of being published or without fear of being shut down. Food contamination is a serious health issue and you may feel a little differently if your kids get real sick or deathly sick if eating contaminated food. Providing basic food safety is a legitimate public health concern.
@fish
Have you been eating the food that isn’t properly fixed. I’m sure there are more violations, but this under/over heated food is ridiculous. I have eaten meals, at the detention center, and it is a five star restaurant food. You get a full meal for breakfast. A sandwich, chips and a cookie for lunch. Another full meal for supper. It makes me want to go back, but there is one problem. I’d have to commit a crime and serve my time. It amazes me that there is all these violations and THEY ARE NOT BEING SHUT DOWN. You say this is government at work, but the only thing I see is them taking our tax dollars and making it look like they are doing a job. LOOK BUSY, LOOK BUSY AND THE TAXPAYER WILL NOT KNOW.
I haven’t ever heard of any general consensus to shut down the Department of Health… They are making sure that foods are kept either hot or cold as mandated by health and food regulations which state law mandates. I think there are probably other areas in which less regulation would be needed or the industry could police itself. Building trades, plumbing, heating, gas connections, electric and water installations, exterior construction are also areas that require permits and inspections to ensure compliance with building and county codes. It is all in the name of safety and I don’t see anything wrong with it. Fire marshal regularly inspects buildings and fire suppression systems to ensure systems work properly in the name of public safety. The market has adapted quite well to these regulations and procedures. I am sure many providers in these business rather not have to get permits and obtain the needed inspections but it is a cost of doing business. If you like to bitch about government, at least make the attempt to make a coherent and constructive thought as to how it could be done better or show how it is done in other places without government interference. I think you just like to bitch just because government is involved..
You must be a person who is very angry and needs to use the services of some of the departments you talk about. Your reply had nothing to do with the health department and checking the food. You must be one of the people who always say, “look at the butterfly”. The government works for the people and not the other way around. Why should the health department put out a list that only says the food is hot/cold. The citizens are not stupid and there are agencies that do a good job, but they are not in this article. Just the facts Ma’am. If you had been in court and wanted to say this, you would have been stopped. Where is the relevance to the above for mentioned article. I’m thinking you are the one with anger issues and want to bitch.
Link to the full report broken….
Fixed. Thanks.
The way health department is enforcing code violations every food service facility would fail every inspection.
So today’s enforcement system is subjective and it should give no one comfort.
This is not a sensible way to keep safe the food supply chain.
Should they discontinue inspections? Of course not.
But they should actually dig a bit deeper and take food samples and test for contamination, bacteria, e coli, salmonella, etc…
And when they find those contaminants close the food facility down.
Having an army of thermometer armed terrorists is not protecting anyone.
If you read the full report (link at the bottom of the story), you will see there are many local food service facilities that somehow find a way to pass the inspection. Not all of them fail.
If inspectors applied the standards uniformly at every restaurant or food service facility most if not all sites would fail.
Inspections are subjective and not comprehensive.
They do take samples if an illness is reported.
Common Sense,
First, you should change your name because you speak none of what your name says, and 2nd the health department isn’t charged with protecting the food chain, only to inspect facilities for those procedures deemed necessary to reduce food contamination. The list given is public so the food places will have an incentive to not be on the list. If other more serious health issues are found such as standing water, unfiltered systems, mice and insect infestation can and has led to closings from time to time. In more severe cases in case of salmonella, legionaries disease and e coli places have been shut down for sure. The health department does this with the budget they have which isn’t meant to have a health cop on every store and taste the food. You are complaining of too much government intervention or too little? Speak with sense!!
ex-inmate,
Once an inmate always an inmate! I think you are the one with anger issues. When the government is doing its charged duties by inspecting stores, it is for the public benefit as laws were passed to protect public health. It isn’t that much of an intrusion on anyone, specially a restaurant owner as they already know that complying with inspections and providing safe food is something important and necessary.
fish story –
Of course it’s the integrity and safety of food supply chain.
Health departments nationwide close down restaurants and food facilities after an e coli, salmonella, etc…after there’s an outbreak and seldom if ever do they knowingly prevent these foodborne illnesses.
The health department job is to inspect food preparation facilities and they don’t test harvesting or processing or test the food! The supply chain is inspected by the Agriculture department, FDA or by other means. The supply chain could be contaminated but the Health department only checks on food preparation.
The food supply chain doesn’t end at the restaurant’s back door.
What a friggin jerk you are.
What do the “Critical violations noted” stand for? ..like 6b.
Lots of schools always show up on these reports.
What up wit dat?
Random inspections aren’t as random as you’d expect.
Where are the food inspectors at the places that have “All You Can Eat” buffets? Where are they to fine the citizens who famously sneeze or breath on the open food?
The inspectors do go to the “All You Can Eat”, problem is the food is all gone because all the fat hogs chow down and stuff their jaws like a hamster does for reserves.
Ahh yes, I have been to the Golden Corral on 40. Thankfully, it was a walk in and walk out situation!
They need to go to Golden Corral in Aberdeen while I enjoy eating there it’s been too many times the food is cold or half warm half cold which is most dangerous!!
If you go to golden corral make sure you have great health insurance you are gonna need it.
Wow the Health Department has done a stellar job thumbing down comments they don’t like.
The worst is having an inspection at an elementary school and fail!!! Ijs