TAMPA, FL. Back in March 2026, state inspectors walked into Alif Food And Gasoline and found kratom products on the shelves that were missing a required disclosure, a store that had no valid food permit, and hemp products sold in packaging that wasn't child-resistant. Before the visit was over, inspectors had issued 27 stop sale orders and cited the store for 12 violations, two of them repeats from a prior inspection.
The kratom finding was the sharpest. Inspectors documented kratom products on the retail floor that lacked labeling disclosing the concentration of 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH, in parts per million on a dry-weight basis, a requirement under Florida emergency rule 5KER25-6. The owner voluntarily discarded the non-compliant products in front of the inspector. Stop sale and release orders were issued, and a supplemental report was provided to management.
It was not the first time inspectors had flagged kratom labeling at this location.
What Inspectors Found
The hemp violations generated the bulk of the stop sale orders. Inspectors found hemp products for human consumption sold in packaging that was not child-resistant, and in containers missing a scannable barcode, a certificate of analysis from an independent testing lab, batch number, expiration date, milligrams of each marketed cannabinoid per serving, a website address for batch information, and serving size. The person in charge voluntarily discarded those products as well.
In the walk-in cooler, raw shell eggs were stored directly above ready-to-eat drinks. The eggs were moved to the bottom shelf during the inspection.
The deli area had its own problem: ice buildup on the walk-in freezer door and wall was preventing the freezer from closing properly. In the retail area, the soda machine had black mold-like buildup at the ice chute release lever, though inspectors noted the machine was not currently in use and the establishment agreed to clean and sanitize the ice chutes before putting it back in service.
Outside, garbage and wood pallets had accumulated at the side and back of the trash dumpster. The back wall of the dumpster enclosure was missing, and trash was strewn across the grounds behind it.
Employees had not been informed in any verifiable way of their responsibility to report health information related to foodborne illness to the person in charge. An employee reporting agreement document was provided during the inspection. No written procedures existed for responding to vomiting or diarrheal events. A backflow prevention device was not installed at the mop sink, where a hose splitter and hose were attached. The wet mop was not hung to dry, though that was corrected on site.
None of the 12 violations were corrected on site in any documented comprehensive sense. The inspector noted zero violations as fully corrected on site at the close of the visit, with the exception of individual items like the mop and the egg storage.
What These Violations Mean
The kratom labeling violation carries real consumer safety stakes. The compound 7-hydroxymitragynine is the primary opioid-active component in kratom and is significantly more potent than mitragynine, the alkaloid most people associate with the plant. Florida's emergency rule requiring disclosure of 7-OH concentration in parts per million exists so that consumers can make informed decisions about dosage and potency. Selling products without that disclosure means a customer has no way of knowing how strong what they're buying actually is.
The hemp labeling failures compound the same problem. Without a certificate of analysis from an independent lab, a batch number, or a scannable code linking to testing data, there is no way for a buyer, or a regulator, to verify what is actually in the product or whether it has been tested at all.
Operating without a valid food permit means the store was selling food to the public before state regulators had confirmed it met baseline safety requirements. That is not a paperwork technicality. Permit inspections exist to catch exactly the kinds of conditions documented here, including the freezer that wouldn't close, the mold at the ice chute, and the food storage violations, before customers are exposed to them.
The illness-reporting violation is a direct transmission risk. When employees don't know they are required to tell a manager if they're sick, there is no mechanism to keep an ill worker away from food or food-contact surfaces.
The Longer Record
The March 2026 inspection was not the first time state inspectors had been to this location with serious concerns. Records show a prior FDACS inspection in November 2024 also turned up 12 violations, including 2 repeats, and was logged as an operating-without-a-valid-food-permit visit that required a product re-inspection.
The kratom labeling violation and the employee illness-reporting violation were both marked as repeats in the March 2026 inspection, meaning inspectors had documented those same problems before and found them unresolved on return.
That pattern, the same store, the same permit problem, the same kratom labeling failure, across inspections more than a year apart, is what the repeat designations in the record reflect.
As of the March 2026 inspection, the backflow prevention device at the mop sink had not been installed, the freezer door remained blocked by ice buildup, and the trash enclosure behind the store still had a missing wall.