JACKSONVILLE, FL. State inspectors visiting Miya Asian Fusion at 10550 Old St. Augustine Road on June 22 found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers sitting in a restaurant that remained open and serving customers despite seven high-severity violations.
That single finding, food from unapproved sources, means inspectors could not verify where the restaurant's ingredients came from or whether they had passed any federal safety inspection. It is one of seven high-priority citations the state recorded that day. Not one was classified as intermediate or basic. All seven were the most serious category the state assigns.
The restaurant was not emergency-closed.
What Inspectors Found
Inspectors cited the restaurant for failing to follow parasite destruction procedures. For an Asian fusion restaurant serving fish, that citation carries direct consequences: without proper freezing protocols or verified cooking temperatures, parasites including Anisakis and tapeworm larvae can survive in fish and reach a customer's plate.
Toxic chemicals were found improperly stored or labeled. That violation places sanitizers, cleaners, or pesticides in proximity to food with no reliable way for staff to distinguish them from food-safe products.
Food contact surfaces, the cutting boards, prep surfaces, and equipment that touch ingredients directly, were not properly cleaned or sanitized. Inspectors also cited the restaurant for failing to correctly apply time as a public health control, a procedure that allows food to sit in the temperature danger zone only under strict time limits. Those limits were not being followed.
Employees were observed using improper handwashing technique. That means pathogens remained on hands even after a washing attempt was made.
What These Violations Mean
The unapproved food source citation is the one that makes illness hardest to trace. When a restaurant purchases from suppliers outside the licensed distribution chain, there is no paperwork connecting an ingredient to a farm, a processing facility, or a federal inspection. If a customer gets sick, investigators have no starting point.
The parasite destruction failure compounds that risk directly. Fish served at an Asian fusion restaurant commonly includes raw or lightly cooked preparations where parasite survival is a genuine clinical concern. Anisakis larvae, if consumed alive, can cause severe abdominal pain and require surgical removal in serious cases.
The chemical storage violation is a different category of danger. Mislabeled or improperly stored cleaning agents near food preparation areas have caused acute poisoning cases in Florida restaurants. A bottle stored in the wrong place, or without a label, is a single pour away from contaminating a dish.
Improperly sanitized food contact surfaces function as a transfer mechanism for every other contamination source in the kitchen. Bacteria from raw proteins, pathogens from unwashed hands, and chemical residue from cleaning products all move through surfaces that were not properly cleaned between uses.
The Longer Record
Miya Asian Fusion: High-Severity Violations Over Time
The June 22 inspection was not an outlier. State records show Miya Asian Fusion has accumulated 287 total violations across 32 inspections on record. The restaurant has never been emergency-closed.
Six of the eight most recent inspections with violations resulted in at least six high-severity citations each. The July 2025 inspection produced nine high-severity violations, the highest single count in the available record. A follow-up inspection one week later showed zero violations, a result that suggests the restaurant can meet standards when it chooses to, but that compliance has not held between inspections.
The pattern across 2024 and 2025 is consistent: inspectors arrive, find six to nine high-severity violations, a follow-up or subsequent visit shows improvement, and then the next routine inspection finds the same categories of problems again. The June 2026 inspection fits that pattern exactly.
No emergency closure has ever been issued against this location in 32 inspections.
The Restaurant Stayed Open
Florida's emergency closure authority allows the state to shut down a restaurant immediately when inspectors determine that continued operation poses an imminent threat to public health. Seven high-severity violations, including unapproved food sources, parasite risks, toxic chemical storage failures, and contaminated food contact surfaces, did not meet that threshold on June 22.
Miya Asian Fusion was open for business after the inspection concluded.
