DAVIE, FL. Raw eggs were sitting directly above ready-to-eat beverages inside the walk-in cooler at Davie Food Market when a state inspector arrived on September 9, 2026, a storage arrangement that creates a direct contamination risk for any drink pulled from that cooler.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspection of the convenience store found seven violations in total, including one priority violation, one repeat violation, and two intermediate-level findings tied to the person in charge's inability to answer basic food safety questions.
What Inspectors Found
The priority violation, the most serious category in the state's ranking system, centered on raw egg storage. The inspector's notes read: "Raw eggs stored in walk in cooler over ready to eat beverages." The person in charge moved the eggs to a proper location during the inspection, but the correction happened only after the inspector flagged the problem.
The repeat violation involved hemp products. According to the inspection record, the retailer was selling hemp or hemp extract intended for human consumption without an age-restriction sign posted adjacent to the inhalation product display. The inspector noted the same deficiency had been documented before. A sign was posted by the person in charge before the inspector left, but the fact that this is a repeat finding means the store had already been told to fix it.
The Person in Charge Could Not Answer Basic Questions
Two intermediate violations, the second-most serious category, pointed to gaps in management knowledge that go beyond a single mislabeled shelf or missing sign.
The inspector found that the person in charge "was unable to ensure that food employees were informed in a verifiable manner to report their illness and or symptoms relate to diseases that are transmissible through food." A guidance document was provided on the spot.
Separately, the inspector noted that the person in charge "does not correctly respond to question related to employee health." A second guidance document was handed over.
The store also had no written procedures for responding to a vomit or diarrhea event on the premises, a required document that outlines how staff should contain and clean up biological contamination to protect other customers and surfaces.
What These Violations Mean
The raw egg finding is the kind of violation food safety officials treat as high priority because it involves a direct contamination pathway. Raw eggs can carry Salmonella on their shells. When they are stored above beverages, any drip, crack, or condensation can transfer bacteria directly onto containers that customers then pick up and put to their mouths. The inspector caught this at Davie Food Market and the eggs were moved, but the arrangement existed before the inspection began.
The two intermediate violations tied to the person in charge are a different category of concern. When the individual responsible for managing a food establishment cannot confirm that employees know when to report illness, there is no reliable barrier between a sick worker and the food or surfaces customers encounter. Employee illness reporting is not a paperwork formality. It is the mechanism that stops a worker with norovirus or hepatitis A from handling products on a shift.
The missing vomit and diarrhea cleanup procedure compounds that gap. Without written protocols, staff have no standard guidance for containing a biological event in a retail space, which means contamination can spread to surfaces, products, and other customers before it is addressed.
The repeat hemp signage violation carries its own significance. Age-restriction requirements for hemp products intended for inhalation exist specifically to prevent sales to minors. Finding the same sign absent on a second inspection means the requirement was not maintained between visits.
The Longer Record
The inspection data provided does not include a prior inspection count for Davie Food Market, which limits how far back the pattern can be traced. What the record does show is that the hemp sign violation has appeared at least twice, confirming this is not a first-time oversight.
None of the seven violations cited on September 9 were corrected on site before the inspection closed, with the exception of the two that inspectors specifically noted as corrected during the visit: the raw egg relocation and the hemp sign posting. The remaining five violations, including the restroom door without a self-closing device, the dust accumulation in the walk-in cooler, the water-stained ceiling tiles throughout the retail floor, the improperly stored mop, and the management knowledge gaps, were unresolved when the inspector left the building.
The person in charge received guidance documents for both employee health policy failures, but receiving a document is not the same as implementing a policy.
