MIRAMAR, FL. Back in January 2026, a state inspector visiting Fujisan Sushi on its Miramar retail floor found a bottle of sanitizer solution stored on a shelf directly next to single-use items and food items, a violation flagged as a priority concern under Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services rules.
That finding was not the only problem documented that day. The inspector also found a rolling cart blocking the handwashing sink in the food processing area, a personal water bottle and purse stored on the same shelf as food and single-use items, and a person in charge who could not correctly answer questions about foodborne illness and its symptoms.
Five violations total were cited. None were corrected on site during the January 14 inspection, with one exception: the blocked handwashing sink. The cart was moved to an appropriate location while the inspector was still present.
What Inspectors Found
The sanitizer finding drew the inspection's highest priority designation. The inspector's notes read: "Bottle of sanitizer solution stored on shelf next to single use items and food items." In a seafood retail environment, where products may sit on open shelving near preparation surfaces, proximity to toxic cleaning chemicals is a direct contamination risk.
The blocked handwashing sink was the one violation resolved during the visit. The inspector noted: "Observed hand wash sink blocked by rolling cart," and recorded that the cart was moved to an appropriate location during the inspection.
The walk-in freezer carried a repeat citation. The inspector observed "air curtains with heavy ice buildup inside walk in freezer," the same category of equipment maintenance failure flagged in a prior inspection. Heavy ice buildup on air curtains can reduce their effectiveness at maintaining temperature separation, which matters in a facility selling raw seafood.
What These Violations Mean
A sanitizer bottle stored next to food and packaging is not a minor housekeeping issue. Sanitizer solutions contain chemicals that are acutely harmful if they come into contact with food, food-contact surfaces, or single-use packaging. In a retail seafood market, where customers buy product to consume at home, contamination at the storage or packaging stage can travel home with the purchase.
The person-in-charge violation is a different kind of concern. State rules require that whoever is running the floor at a food establishment be able to correctly answer questions about foodborne illness and symptoms, because that knowledge is the first line of defense when an employee shows up sick. At Fujisan Sushi in January, the person in charge could not do that. That gap does not mean food was contaminated, but it does mean the facility's internal oversight mechanism was not functioning as required.
The blocked handwashing sink matters because handwashing is the single most basic barrier between employee contact and the food customers buy. A sink that cannot be reached is a sink that does not get used. The fact that a cart had to be moved by an inspector to restore access suggests the blockage was not accidental.
The Longer Record
Fujisan Sushi, Miramar: Inspection History
State records show four FDACS inspections at this location going back to April 2023. The earliest visit produced a single violation. The November 2024 inspection found four. The October 2025 preoperational check found two. By January 2026, the count had reached five, with one of them carrying the repeat designation.
The repeat violation is worth noting. Equipment maintenance problems, like the ice buildup on the walk-in freezer's air curtains, do not appear overnight. They accumulate over time and are corrected, or they are not. The January record shows the same category of finding appearing again after it had already been documented.
The January inspection ended with the facility still meeting sanitation requirements under FDACS standards. But four of the five violations cited that day, including the sanitizer stored next to food and the failed food safety questions from the person in charge, were not corrected while the inspector was on site.