Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach
740 Beal Pkwy Nw, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547
Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach, FL has 5 FDACS food safety inspections on record with 13 violations.
Last inspected FDACS: November 21, 2024
Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach: FDACS Inspection History (5)
Inspections conducted by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), which oversees grocery stores, convenience stores, bakeries, food manufacturers, mobile vendors, and vending machines.
— 3 inspections
— Met Sanitation Inspection Requirements· 8 violations· Met Requirements
Comments: When citations have been corrected and initialed, an electronic copy of the completed report may be emailed to
[email protected].
Please note each observation that has been corrected.
Request 5122702: Discussed complaint with management.
Risk-Based Violations
3-501.18
Ready-to-eat time/temperature control for safety food that requires date marking not
discarded when it exceeds the 7-day limit, except time that the product is frozen, or does not bear a date
mark and the correct date mark cannot be determined. 3-501.18 PP
Seafood Department: Pre-cooked crab legs received frozen then thawed in the store were
placed in cold case without date marking. COS. The crab legs were removed and discarded.
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3-501.19(B)(2)
Time without temperature control is used as the public health control for up to 4
hours. Time/temperature control for safety food not marked or identified to indicate the time that is 4 hours
past the point in time when the food is removed from temperature control. 3-501.19(B)(2) PfPf
Front Cafe: Pizza held without written time for hot hold. COS. Manager placed the store
implemented two hour pull time on the pizza hot hold.
x
6-301.11
Handwashing sink or group of 2 adjacent handwashing sinks not provided with hand
cleaning liquid, powder, or bar soap. Handwashing sink or group of adjacent handwashing sinks not
provided with: individual, disposable towels; continuous towel system that supplies the user with a clean
towel; a heated-air hand drying device; or a device that employs an air-knife system that delivers high
velocity, pressurized air at ambient temperatures. 6-301.11 and 6-301.12 PfPf
Seafood Hand Wash Sink: No soap at sink. COS. Soap was replaced at sink.
Good Retail Practice Violations
3-305.12
Food stored in a locker room, toilet room, dressing room, garbage room or
mechanical room; or under sewer lines that are not shielded to intercept potential drips, leaking water lines
or sprinkler heads, lines on which water has condensed, open stairwells or other sources of contamination.
3-305.12Repeat
Bakery: Cart with cake icing bags placed under the soap dispenser at the hand wash sink.
COS. The cart was moved away from the hand wash sink.
5-205.15(B)
Plumbing system not maintained in good repair. 5-205.15(B)
Meat Department Hand Sink: The plumbing at the faucet is leaking water and the sink unit is
pulled away from the wall.
6-501.11
Physical facilities not maintained in good repair. 6-501.11
Ware Wash and Hand Wash Sinks: Sinks missing and some with damaged caulking along
the tops which attachs the sinks to the wall.
6-501.12
Physical facilities not cleaned as often as necessary to keep them clean, or cleaning
not done during periods when the least amount of food is exposed such as after closing. 6-501.12
Back Deli, Seafood, and Meat Departments: Old food residue on doors, fronts of
warewashing sink in Meat Dept., plastic panels at the chicken hot hold case, and sliding doors and tracks at
the meat case in the seafood area. Old food residue in the warewashing sink drains at the floor level.
6-201.13
Floor and wall junctures not coved and closed to no larger than one thirty-second
inch in areas where cleaning methods other than water flushing are used for cleaning floors; or floors not
provided with drains and graded to drain, or the floor and wall junctures not coved and sealed in areas
where water flush cleaning methods are used. 6-201.13
Floor in front of Chicken Oven: Broken flooring and not smooth as required.
— Met Sanitation Inspection Requirements· Met Requirements
Comments: Employee Health Guidelines and reporting agreement provided.
No violations or enforcement actions recorded for this inspection.
— Focused Inspection· Focused Inspection
Comments: Request 5120724: Discussed Consumer Complaint with management.
No violations or enforcement actions recorded for this inspection.
— 2 inspections
— Met Inspection Requirements· 5 violations· Met Requirements
Comments: Trainee present during inspection. All violations verified by primary inspector.
Risk-Based Violations
3-501.19(B)(4)
Time without temperature control is used as the public health control. Time/temperature
control for safety food not discarded when marked to exceed a 4-hour or 6-hour time limit, whichever is applicable, or
food is in unmarked containers or packages and the correct time marking cannot be determined. 3-501.19(B)(4) and
(C)(5) PP
Front deli: Observed pizzas not marked with the correct time markings. COS. Correct time markings
were placed next to the pizzas.
x
3-603.11(C)
Reminder for animal food that is raw, undercooked, or not otherwise processed to eliminate
pathogens and served or sold in a ready-to-eat form or as an ingredient in another ready-to-eat food does not include
asterisking the animal-derived food requiring disclosure to a footnote that contains one of the three acceptable
messages informing consumers of the increased risk of foodborne illness. 3-603.11(C) PfPf
Sushi front deli: Observed no reminder of raw animal food for the sushi in the retail reach-in cooler.
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Good Retail Practice Violations
2-402.11
Food employee not wearing a hair restraint such as a hat, hair covering or net, beard restraint,
or clothing that covers body hair, that is designed and worn to effectively keep their hair from contacting exposed
food; clean equipment, utensils, and linens; and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles. 2-402.11
Deli: Observed food service worker with no beard restraint. COS. Worker put on beard restraint when
asked to. Front deli: Observed food service worker with beard restraint only covering bottom of beard. COS. Worker
pulled beard restraint over entire beard when asked to.
x
4-904.11(A)-(B)
Cleaned and sanitized utensils handled, displayed or dispensed without protection from
contamination of food- and lip-contact surfaces; or knives, forks or spoons that are not prewrapped are not presented
so that only the handles are touched by employees or consumers. 4-904.11(A)-(B)
Bakery: Observed sanitized pastry bags hanging in and over sanitizing solution. COS. Pastry bags
were moved to higher hooks out of the sanitizing solution.
x
6-501.11
Physical facilities not maintained in good repair. 6-501.11
Bakery walk-in freezer: Observed ice forming on condenser unit.
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— Met Inspection Requirements· Met Requirements
Comments: Trainee present during inspection. All violations verified by primary inspector.
No violations or enforcement actions recorded for this inspection.
Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach: Frequently Asked Questions
- When was Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach last inspected?
- Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach was last inspected by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) on November 21, 2024. Inspection type: Met Sanitation Inspection Requirements.
- How many inspections has Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach had?
- Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach has 5 FDACS food safety inspection(s) on record from January 2022 to present.
- What did the most recent FDACS inspection of Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach find?
- Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach was most recently inspected by FDACS on November 21, 2024 (Met Sanitation Inspection Requirements).
- Has Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach had any stop-sale or stop-use orders?
- No, Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach has no stop-sale or stop-use orders on record with Florida FDACS.
- What are the most common violations at Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach?
- The most frequently cited FDACS violations at Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach are: 6-501.11: Physical facilities not maintained in good repair. 6-501.11; 3-501.19(B)(4): Time without temperature control is used as the public health control. Time/temperature control for safety food not discarded when marked to exceed a 4-hour or 6-hour time limit, whichever is applicable, or food is in unmarked containers or packages and the correct time marking cannot be determined. 3-501.19(B)(4) and (C)(5) P; 3-603.11(C): Reminder for animal food that is raw, undercooked, or not otherwise processed to eliminate pathogens and served or sold in a ready-to-eat form or as an ingredient in another ready-to-eat food does not include asterisking the animal-derived food requiring disclosure to a footnote that contains one of the three acceptable messages informing consumers of the increased risk of foodborne illness. 3-603.11(C) Pf.
- Does Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach have any repeat violations?
- Yes, Sam's Club # 6361 in Fort Walton Beach has had the following violations cited on multiple FDACS inspections: 6-501.11: Physical facilities not maintained in good repair. 6-501.11.
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