CITY COOKOUT

3-501.14(A) Quickly cool cooked foods within 2 hours from 135F to 70F; and within a total of 6 hours from 135F to 41F. -P. Found ground beef and diced chicken cooked previous night still above 41.0 F at midday today. all voluntarily discarded. For more information please visit: www.mecknc.gov/foodsafety or view our training videos at the following weblinks: What are TCS Foods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0iLZb7v0UM and Cooling Food Safely https://youtu.be/P6x8b1ZVOxU .

3-501.15 Quickly cool foods. Use methods such as open/vented shallow pans, large ice baths and active stirring. Cold air must flow around product to remove the heat. -Pf : Containers of diced chicken and ground beef cooked previous night did not reach cooling parameters due to dense volume and tightly covered containers. Found halved cherry tomatoes and sliced tomatoes prepped 3 hours previously cooling in prep unit on MFU. Refer to temperature chart. CDI- See #20 above. Discussion with PIC about how to achieve proper cooling. Tomatoes moved to commissary freezer for rapid chill. For more information, please visit: https://health.mecknc.gov/envhealth/food-and-facilities-sanitation or view our training videos at the following weblinks: What are TCS Foods https://youtu.be/bRvqAETDjQU and Cooling Food Safely https://youtu.be/P6x8b1ZVOxU .

3-501.14(B) Quickly cool TCS foods that are prepared from room temperature ingredients. Food must be to 41F within 4 hours. -P. Observed sliced cherry tomatoes and sliced small tomatoes, cold holding at 44 and 47° Respectively. EH S determined from conversation with PIC that tomatoes were prepped around 11 or 12 o’clock sealed in a plastic container and placed in the cooler inside the Commissary kitchen. EHS determines tomatoes failed to cool to 41° within four hours CDI product discarded and PIC coached. For more information, please visit: www.meckncgov/foodsafety or view our training videos at the following weblinks: What are TCS Foods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0iLZb7v0UM and Cooling Food Safely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6x8b1ZVOxU .

3-501.17 Date mark/label all TCS foods that are ready-to-eat once opened or prepared and held more than 24hrs. -Pf observed all TCS foods date marked for eight days of shelf life. All foods still well within date. CDI EHS instructed PIC to change the dates to seven days. For more information, please visit: www.mecknc.gov/foodsafety or view our training videos at the following weblinks: What are TCS Foods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0iLZb7v0UM and Date Marking Food Safely https://youtu.be/BOPsSNUajYs .

4-502.13 Single-use and single-service articles cannot be reused. Observed multiple TCS foods cold held in single service containers. Containers purchased new Are actually for packaged food to be her medically sealed. However, they are being used as in use utensils and require washing and are not rated to be washed rinsed and sanitized. CDI to be discarded