SUNRISE, FL. A state inspector walked into Cami Bakery Corp on North Pine Island Road on May 28 and found no allergen awareness demonstrated by staff, a violation that puts the 32 million Americans living with food allergies at direct risk every time they order from the counter.
That was one of six high-severity violations documented that day. The bakery was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The allergen citation means staff could not demonstrate they understood which ingredients trigger life-threatening reactions, or how to prevent cross-contact. For a bakery, where wheat, eggs, dairy, and tree nuts are routine ingredients, that gap is not a paperwork problem.
Inspectors also cited employees for not reporting illness symptoms to management. A bakery employee handling dough, fillings, or finished product while infected with norovirus can contaminate food that dozens of customers will eat before anyone realizes something is wrong.
The handwashing violation compounded that risk. The citation was not for skipping handwashing entirely but for improper technique, meaning workers were going through the motions without eliminating pathogens.
Inspectors also documented that parasite destruction procedures were not being followed. That violation applies when certain fish, pork, or wild game products are served without the freezing or cooking steps required to kill parasites including Anisakis and Trichinella. The food-in-poor-condition citation covered spoiled, contaminated, mislabeled, or adulterated product. And the time-as-a-public-health-control violation means food was being held in the temperature danger zone, between 41 and 135 degrees, without the strict time-tracking that makes that practice safe.
The one intermediate violation: single-use items being reused.
What These Violations Mean
The allergen violation is the kind that ends in emergency rooms. Allergic reactions to food send 30,000 people to emergency rooms annually in the United States and kill roughly 150. At a bakery, where a customer asking whether something contains nuts or eggs is trusting the answer, staff who cannot demonstrate allergen awareness represent a direct and documented hazard.
The illness-reporting failure is how outbreaks begin. Food workers are the leading transmission route for norovirus, which spreads through contaminated food and sickens tens of millions of Americans each year. When a worker does not report symptoms, management cannot remove them from food handling, and the exposure window stays open.
The parasite destruction citation is less visible but serious. Parasites in undercooked or improperly frozen fish and pork are not killed by refrigeration alone. The procedures that destroy them, specific temperature thresholds held for specific durations, exist precisely because the alternative is a customer ingesting a living organism.
Together, these six violations at Cami Bakery on May 28 represent failures across multiple independent safety systems: employee health, hand hygiene, allergen management, food quality, food sourcing protocols, and time-temperature control. Each one is a separate breakdown.
The Longer Record
This was not an unusual day at Cami Bakery. It was the worst day on record, but only by degree.
State records show 13 inspections on file for the facility, with 69 total violations documented across those visits. High-severity violations appeared in every single prior inspection on record going back to March 2023.
The March 2023 inspection produced seven high-severity violations and two intermediate ones, the previous high-water mark. The two inspections in June 2023 added five more high-severity citations across back-to-back visits. Three high-severity violations appeared again in November 2023, then three more in July 2025, five more in March 2025, and four more in November 2025.
The May 2026 inspection, with six high-severity violations, arrived after a facility that had never once cleared a routine inspection without at least three high-severity findings.
The bakery has never been emergency-closed.
Still Open
Florida's emergency closure authority exists for situations where an inspector determines that continued operation poses an immediate threat to public health. Six high-severity violations, including no allergen awareness, no illness reporting, improper handwashing, and food in poor condition, did not meet that threshold on May 28.
The inspection record at Cami Bakery now spans three years, 13 inspections, and 69 violations. High-severity citations have appeared every time an inspector has walked through the door.
On May 28, after documenting six of them, the inspector left. The bakery stayed open.