WINTER GARDEN, FL. A Just Salad location in Winter Garden was cited for six high-severity health violations on June 2, 2026, including a failure to follow parasite destruction procedures for fish and a documented gap in employee illness reporting, and state inspectors left the restaurant open.
Just Salad Store #71 on Daniels Road drew a total of seven violations during the June inspection, six of them classified as high priority. The restaurant, part of a national fast-casual salad chain, was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
The parasite destruction citation is among the most serious findings. Proper parasite control for fish requires either freezing to specific temperatures for a defined period or cooking to sufficient internal heat. When neither step is verified, parasites including Anisakis and tapeworm larvae can survive in the finished dish.
Just Salad menus prominently feature raw and lightly dressed fish proteins. The parasite destruction citation means the facility could not demonstrate those protocols were being followed.
The employee illness reporting violation compounds that risk. A worker who fails to report symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, or jaundice can continue handling food, and norovirus in particular spreads readily from a single infected food handler to dozens of customers through surface and food contact.
Inspectors also cited the facility for food not reaching required minimum cooking temperatures, a failure in the use of time as a public health control, improperly sanitized food contact surfaces, and improper handwashing technique. The seventh violation, classified as intermediate, was improper sewage or wastewater disposal.
What These Violations Mean
The parasite destruction failure and the illness reporting gap together represent two of the most direct routes from a kitchen to a sick customer. Parasites in fish are invisible and odorless. A customer eating improperly handled fish has no way to detect the risk. Symptoms of anisakiasis, an infection caused by Anisakis larvae, can include severe abdominal pain and vomiting within hours of eating contaminated fish.
The employee illness reporting violation is classified as an outbreak enabler for a specific reason. A single asymptomatic or symptomatic norovirus carrier can contaminate food contact surfaces, utensils, and finished dishes. Norovirus is hardy enough to survive on surfaces for days and requires fewer than 20 viral particles to cause illness in a healthy adult.
Improperly sanitized food contact surfaces, also cited here, extend that risk. Cutting boards, prep surfaces, and tongs that are not properly cleaned between uses carry bacteria and viruses from one batch of food to the next, regardless of what the food itself is.
The sewage and wastewater violation adds a separate contamination pathway. Raw sewage contains fecal bacteria including E. coli and Salmonella. Improper disposal in a food prep environment puts those pathogens in proximity to food, surfaces, and workers.
The Longer Record
Just Salad Store #71: Inspection History
The June 2026 inspection is the fifth consecutive visit in which inspectors found five or more high-priority violations. The facility has accumulated 65 total violations across 11 inspections on record.
The pattern is consistent. From August 2023 through October 2023, the facility logged two clean inspections. Every inspection since April 2024 has produced at least five high-priority findings. The October 2025 visit produced seven, the same count as the April 2024 inspection.
The facility has never been emergency-closed. No prior closure appears in its inspection record.
Open for Business
After documenting six high-priority violations, including a failure to control parasites in fish and a gap in employee illness reporting, the inspector did not order the restaurant closed.
Just Salad Store #71 on Daniels Road was open when the inspection concluded on June 2, 2026.