JACKSONVILLE, FL. An inspector visiting Delicias Colombianas on Blanding Boulevard in late September found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, a violation that means no one can trace where that food came from if a customer gets sick.
That was one of seven high-severity violations documented at the Jacksonville restaurant on September 28, 2026. The facility was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The food sourcing violation is among the most serious a restaurant can receive. Food from unapproved or unknown suppliers has bypassed federal safety inspections, meaning any contamination, whether Listeria, Salmonella, or something else, cannot be traced back to its origin if diners fall ill.
The inspector also cited food not cooked to required minimum temperatures. Poultry that does not reach 165 degrees Fahrenheit can carry live Salmonella. The notation means customers may have received undercooked food without any indication on the menu that a risk existed, because the restaurant also lacked a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked items.
Employees were found not reporting symptoms of illness, and their handwashing technique was cited as improper. Those two violations together describe a kitchen where pathogens can move from a sick worker's hands directly onto food, through every surface those hands touch.
The five intermediate violations compounded the picture. Inspectors documented improper sewage or wastewater disposal, which creates the possibility of fecal contamination spreading through the facility. Single-use items were being reused. Sanitizing solutions were improperly mixed or applied, meaning surfaces that appeared clean may not have been. Toilet facilities were inadequate or improperly maintained.
What These Violations Mean
The combination of unapproved food sources and insufficient cooking temperatures is particularly consequential. When food arrives from an unknown supplier and is then undercooked, there is no safety checkpoint at either end of the process. The supplier has not been inspected, and the heat that would kill surviving pathogens was never fully applied.
The illness-reporting failure carries its own weight. Norovirus, one of the most common causes of restaurant-linked outbreaks, spreads primarily through infected food handlers. An employee who does not report symptoms, or is not required to, can contaminate food for dozens of customers before anyone connects the illnesses to a meal.
Allergen awareness is a separate and acute risk. Food allergies affect roughly 32 million Americans, and reactions send approximately 30,000 people to emergency rooms each year. When staff cannot identify allergens in dishes, customers with tree nut, shellfish, or other allergies cannot make safe choices. The inspector found no demonstration of allergen awareness at Delicias Colombianas on September 28.
The sewage disposal violation adds a dimension that goes beyond food handling. Improper wastewater disposal can introduce fecal bacteria, including E. coli, into areas where food is prepared or stored. That violation, combined with improperly sanitized surfaces and reused single-use items, describes a facility where multiple contamination pathways were open at once.
The Longer Record
Delicias Colombianas: High-Severity Violations Over Time
State records show 31 inspections on file for Delicias Colombianas, with 249 total violations accumulated across that history. The restaurant has never been emergency-closed.
The September 2026 inspection was not an outlier. In April 2026, inspectors documented eight high-severity violations and seven intermediate ones, the most severe single inspection in the available record. In September 2025, the tally was six high-severity violations. In April 2025, six high-severity violations again.
That means the restaurant has logged six or more high-severity violations in four of the last five inspection cycles that produced substantive findings. The two inspections showing zero violations, in June 2026 and October 2026, bracket the September inspection on either side, but they do not change what the September record contains.
The food-sourcing violation and the illness-reporting failure have both appeared in prior inspection cycles. They are not new discoveries at this address.
The Facility Remained Open
A follow-up inspection on October 6, 2026, eight days after the September visit, recorded zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations.
What changed between September 28 and October 6 is not documented in the state record. What the September 28 record does document is a restaurant that served customers that day with food of unknown origin, cooked to an unverified temperature, prepared by employees whose illness status was not being tracked and whose handwashing technique had been cited as deficient.
The facility was not closed on September 28, 2026.
