TALLAHASSEE, FL. Back in December 2025, state inspectors walked into Ami 95 Food Mart on a product re-inspection and found no hot water at the food prep hand wash sink, kratom products on the shelf that still lacked required labeling, and no hand soap at the ware wash room sink.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services logged five violations during the December 22 visit. Two of those violations were repeats, meaning inspectors had flagged the same problems at this store before. None were corrected on site.
What Inspectors Found
The kratom labeling violation drew the most specific attention in the inspection record. According to the inspector's notes, kratom products at the store were not labeled with the concentration of 7-Hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH, as required under Florida emergency rule 5KER25-6. The rule requires that concentration to be expressed in "parts per million (PPM) on a dry-weight basis" of the net contents of the package.
That was the second time inspectors cited the store for the same kratom labeling deficiency.
The second repeat violation involved written procedures for handling what inspectors call a "vomitus or diarrhea event." The inspector noted the store had no written procedures for employees to follow when responding to a discharge of vomitus or diarrhea onto surfaces, and that any procedures in place did not address specific actions employees must take to minimize the spread of contamination and the exposure of employees, consumers, food, and surfaces to vomitus or fecal matter.
Beyond the repeats, inspectors flagged three additional violations. The person in charge had not ensured that food employees and conditional employees were informed, in a verifiable manner, of their responsibility to report health information related to diseases transmissible through food. There was no hand soap at the hand wash sink in the ware wash room. And the food prep hand wash sink had no hot water.
What These Violations Mean
The kratom labeling requirement is not a technicality. Florida's emergency rule exists because 7-Hydroxymitragynine, the primary active alkaloid in kratom, carries documented risks at high concentrations, including dependence and potential toxicity. Without a PPM disclosure on the label, a customer buying a kratom product at Ami 95 in December had no way to know how much of that compound they were getting. If a product causes an adverse reaction, the absence of proper labeling also makes it harder to trace the source and concentration involved.
The missing hot water at the food prep hand wash sink is a direct barrier to basic hygiene. Hand washing requires warm water to be effective, and a sink without hot water is a sink that employees may skip or use inadequately. At a store that handles any food preparation, that gap matters.
The absence of written procedures for vomitus and diarrhea events may sound procedural, but it addresses a real transmission risk. Norovirus, one of the most common causes of foodborne illness, spreads through exactly these kinds of contamination events. Without a written protocol, employees have no guidance on how to contain the contamination, what protective equipment to use, or how to sanitize affected surfaces.
The health reporting violation compounds that risk. When employees are not formally informed, in a verifiable way, that they must report illnesses to the person in charge, a sick employee is more likely to work a shift without anyone knowing. At a food establishment, that is a direct route to customer exposure.
The Longer Record
The December inspection was not the first time Ami 95 Food Mart drew scrutiny from state inspectors, and the repeat violations make the history relevant.
The store's most recent inspection on record, from March 2026, showed only one violation, one of which was a repeat, and the store met sanitation inspection requirements on that visit. But the December 2025 inspection, which is the subject of this article, came before that improvement and followed a July 2024 visit that produced seven violations.
The July 2024 inspection had already put the store on notice for multiple deficiencies. The fact that two violations cited in December 2025 were marked as repeats means inspectors found the same problems, specifically the kratom labeling and the vomitus procedures, had not been resolved in the intervening period.
The store's earliest inspection on record, a focused inspection in August 2022, produced zero violations.
Unresolved at the Time of Inspection
The inspection record for December 22, 2025 shows zero violations corrected on site. That means all five citations, including the two the store had already been flagged for previously, remained unresolved when the inspector left the building.
The kratom products with missing concentration disclosures were still on the shelf. The food prep hand wash sink still had no hot water. The ware wash room still had no soap.
The March 2026 follow-up visit showed improvement, with just one violation recorded. But on the day inspectors walked in that December, none of the problems documented in the report had been fixed before they walked out.