MIRAMAR, FL. Back in December 2025, a state inspector visiting the sushi counter inside a Miramar Publix found multiple containers of raw store-made "Crunchy Roll Salmon" stored directly over containers of Avocado Salad Roll and Summer Rolls inside the self-serve reach-in cooler.

That finding, documented on December 31, 2025, was one of two priority violations recorded during the inspection of Advanced Fresh Concepts Pb 1699, a seafood market retail operation inside the Miramar Publix location. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services conducted the inspection. The facility met sanitation requirements overall, but three violations were cited, and none were corrected before inspectors arrived.

What Inspectors Found

1PRIORITYRaw salmon stored over ready-to-eat rollsSelf-serve cooler
2PRIORITYEmployee washed hands for less than 5 secondsFood service area
3PRIORITY FOUNDATIONNo written vomit/diarrhea cleanup proceduresEstablishment-wide

The raw-over-ready-to-eat storage violation was the most serious finding. The inspector's own notes read: "Multiple containers of raw store-made 'Crunchy Roll Salmon' stored over containers of Avocado Salad Roll and Summer Rolls, inside the self-serve reach-in cooler." Staff moved all items to the correct locations during the visit.

The second priority violation involved handwashing. The inspector observed a food employee wash their hands for less than five seconds in the food service area. Proper handwashing was completed after the inspector intervened.

A third violation, classified as a priority foundation item, noted that the establishment had no written procedures for employees to follow when responding to a vomiting or diarrheal event. The inspector provided a copy of guidance materials on-site. That violation was not corrected during the inspection in the sense that no written plan was produced before the inspector left.

What These Violations Mean

The raw-over-ready-to-eat storage problem is one of the most direct contamination risks in a retail food setting. Raw salmon carries pathogens including Salmonella and Listeria. When raw fish is stored above foods that will not be cooked before a customer eats them, any drip or leak from the raw product falls directly onto food that goes straight into someone's mouth. In a self-serve cooler that shoppers open and close throughout the day, that risk is compounded.

The handwashing violation at this counter matters in a specific way. Sushi preparation involves direct hand contact with fish and rice that customers eat without any cooking step. A food handler who does not wash their hands thoroughly before touching those ingredients is a direct transmission route for whatever is on their hands, whether that is a prior raw protein, a surface contaminant, or a pathogen from illness.

The missing vomit and diarrhea cleanup procedures may sound administrative, but it is not. When a customer or employee has a gastrointestinal event in a food retail area, the cleanup process determines whether norovirus or other pathogens spread to food contact surfaces, ready-to-eat products, or other customers. Without a written protocol, employees are left to improvise in a situation where improvisation routinely leads to wider contamination.

None of the three violations at Advanced Fresh Concepts were marked as repeat citations. The raw storage and handwashing violations were corrected on-site after the inspector intervened. The written procedures violation was not resolved during the visit.

The Longer Record

Advanced Fresh Concepts Pb 1699: Inspection History

September 20224 violations cited during a routine inspection. Facility met requirements.
May 20240 violations. Met inspection requirements.
July 20250 violations. Focused inspection.
December 20253 violations, 2 priority. Met sanitation requirements.
March 20260 violations. Focused inspection.

State records show five inspections at this location going back to September 2022. The facility's track record is largely clean. Three of those five inspections produced zero violations, and the December 2025 visit was only the second time inspectors cited any violations at all.

The September 2022 inspection resulted in four violations, though the facility met requirements at that time as well. The December 2025 inspection was more serious in one respect: two of the three violations were classified as priority items, meaning they carried a direct risk of foodborne illness if not corrected. The 2022 record does not include violation-level detail in the available data, so a direct comparison of severity is not possible.

A focused inspection conducted in March 2026, after the December findings, turned up zero violations. That result suggests the facility addressed the underlying issues, though the written vomit and diarrhea cleanup procedures were the one item not resolved during the December visit itself.

Whether that written plan was in place by the time of the March 2026 follow-up, the inspection record does not say.