CORAL SPRINGS, FL. Inspectors visiting China Spring at 10629 Wiles Rd. on May 5, 2026 found that the restaurant was sourcing food from unapproved or unknown suppliers, a violation that means there is no way to trace what came in, where it came from, or whether it passed any federal safety inspection.
That was one of eight high-severity violations documented in a single visit. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The full violation list reads like a compounding series of failures. Parasite destruction procedures were not followed, meaning fish or pork served that day was not properly frozen or cooked to kill organisms like Anisakis or Trichinella. Time as a public health control was not properly used, meaning food was allowed to sit in the temperature danger zone without the tracking required to make that practice safe.
Food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized. An employee was not reporting symptoms of illness. The person in charge was either absent or not performing required supervisory duties.
Three intermediate violations accompanied the eight high-severity ones. Inspectors cited improper sewage or wastewater disposal, multi-use utensils not properly cleaned, and inadequate ventilation and lighting.
What These Violations Mean
The unapproved food source violation is the one with the longest shadow. When a restaurant buys food outside the regulated supply chain, there is no USDA or FDA inspection record attached to it. If a customer gets sick, investigators have no paper trail to follow. Listeria, Salmonella, and E. coli have all been traced to supply chains that bypassed federal oversight.
The employee illness reporting violation is more immediate. Food workers who do not report symptoms are the leading cause of multi-victim outbreaks. Norovirus, in particular, spreads rapidly when a symptomatic employee continues handling food. China Spring had no documented system, on this visit, to catch that before it reached a plate.
The parasite destruction failure compounds the sourcing problem. If the fish or pork came from an unverified supplier and was also not subjected to proper freezing or cooking temperatures, there is no backstop. Both safeguards failed at the same time.
The improper sewage disposal citation adds a separate contamination pathway. Raw sewage carries fecal bacteria throughout a facility when disposal is not handled correctly, and that risk does not stay contained to one area of a kitchen.
The Longer Record
This was not a bad week at an otherwise clean restaurant. China Spring has accumulated 259 total violations across 24 inspections on record, and the pattern in the most recent years is consistent.
Inspectors found five high-severity violations in November 2025, six high-severity violations in July 2025, and five more in February 2025. The May 2026 inspection, with eight high-severity citations, is the worst single visit in recent history, but it is the continuation of a line, not a departure from one.
Going further back, five high-severity violations were documented in June 2023, two in November 2023, three in October 2024, and three in January 2024. There has not been a clean inspection in any of the eight prior visits on record. The restaurant has never been emergency-closed.
The absence of a closure in the earlier inspections did not produce improvement. The violation count in May 2026 is higher than any prior visit captured in the recent record.
Still Open
State inspectors have the authority to order an emergency closure when a facility presents an immediate threat to public health. Eight high-severity violations at China Spring on May 5, 2026 did not meet that threshold, at least not in the judgment of the inspector on site.
The violations documented that day included food of unknown origin, an employee who was not disclosing illness, parasites that may not have been destroyed, food in poor condition, and a person in charge who was not present or not doing the job.
China Spring remained open after the inspection.