WINTER HAVEN, FL. Back in January 2026, a new juice shop preparing to open its doors in Winter Haven cleared its preoperational inspection, but state records show the person in charge could not answer basic questions about employee health policy and the establishment had no written plan for handling a vomit or diarrhea event on the premises.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspected Healing Glow Juices, a non-carbonated juice producer and retailer on January 9, 2026. The facility met preoperational inspection requirements and was cleared to operate. The inspection turned up two violations, neither classified as a priority violation and neither marked as a repeat.
Both violations remained unresolved when the inspector left.
What Inspectors Found
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The first violation involved the person in charge and their ability to demonstrate knowledge of employee health requirements. According to the inspector's notes, the person in charge "had some knowledge of employee health information, but did not have any employee health information available to help them answer questions about employee health as it relates to food borne illnesses and their symptoms, and reporting responsibilities, exclusions and restrictions of food employee(s)."
The inspector provided employee health policy guidance to the establishment before leaving.
The second violation was a missing written procedure for handling contamination events. The inspector noted that "the food establishment does not have a written vomit or diarrhea event clean up procedure available." A guidance handout was given to management to help them develop step-by-step cleanup procedures.
Neither violation was corrected on site during the January 9 inspection.
What These Violations Mean
For anyone who shops at a juice bar or purchases fresh non-carbonated juice from a retail establishment, the two violations documented at Healing Glow Juices in January point to a specific category of risk: what happens when a sick employee shows up to work.
Fresh juice is a high-contact product. It is pressed, poured, bottled, and handled repeatedly before it reaches a customer. When the person in charge cannot answer questions about which illnesses require an employee to be excluded from the facility entirely, or which symptoms require restrictions on what tasks that employee can perform, the gap between policy and practice widens. The inspector's notes describe a person in charge who had "some knowledge" but lacked any documentation to support or verify that knowledge.
That documentation gap matters because knowledge without a written policy is difficult to enforce, train from, or verify during a future inspection.
The second violation, the missing vomit and diarrhea cleanup procedure, addresses a narrow but serious scenario. Norovirus, one of the most common causes of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States, spreads easily through contaminated surfaces and can survive on them for extended periods. A written cleanup procedure specifies the correct disinfectant concentration, the protective equipment employees must wear, and how to isolate and dispose of contaminated materials. Without one, an employee facing that situation has no documented protocol to follow, and a facility selling fresh juice has no record that it handled the event correctly.
The inspector provided written guidance to management on both issues. Whether those handouts were used to develop formal policies after the inspection is not reflected in the January 9 records.
The Longer Record
The January 9, 2026 inspection was a preoperational review, meaning it was conducted before the facility began serving the public. That context shapes how the two violations read. Healing Glow Juices was not a facility that had been operating for years and had accumulated a pattern of repeat citations. It was a business preparing to open, being evaluated against the baseline requirements the state sets before a food establishment can begin selling to customers.
State inspection records show no prior inspections on file for this location before January 9. This was the first documented inspection of the facility.
That means there is no longer record to examine, no prior pattern of the same violations appearing and reappearing across multiple visits. The two findings here represent a starting point, not a trend. What the record does show is that on the day the state cleared this facility to operate, both documentation gaps were still open.
The facility passed. The violations were not corrected on site.
Where Things Stood After January 9
Healing Glow Juices received its preoperational clearance on January 9, 2026, and the inspection record reflects that it met state requirements to open. The two violations cited that day, one involving employee health policy knowledge and documentation, and one involving the absence of a written contamination cleanup procedure, were classified as priority foundation violations, a category that sits below the highest severity tier but above basic housekeeping citations.
The inspector left guidance materials with the establishment on both counts.
Neither violation was marked corrected on site, and the January 9 inspection record does not reflect a follow-up visit or a callback inspection to verify that written policies had been developed.
The state cleared the shop to sell juice to the public. The written plan for what to do if an employee came to work sick, or if a contamination event occurred on the floor, was not yet in place when the inspector walked out the door.