HIALEAH, FL. Back in February 2026, state agriculture inspectors cited a Hialeah Navarro Discount Pharmacy for selling perishable food without a valid permit, and for being unable to provide any documentation showing its water supply came from an approved source.
The inspection, conducted February 4 at the pharmacy's location in Miami-Dade County, was classified as a re-inspection, meaning it was not the first time inspectors had come looking for answers. It was at least the third time in as many months.
What Inspectors Found
Navarro Discount Pharmacy #11601: Inspection History
The February inspection logged three violations, two of them classified as priority. The inspector's own notes described the core problem plainly: "This food establishment is operating without a valid food permit and has not met all permitting requirements by providing approved documentation for water supply and sewage disposal."
Both priority violations tied directly to that documentation failure. The inspector wrote that the establishment "did not provide documentation demonstrating the water supply for its facility comes from an approved source, as required by Rule 5K-4.004(3)(a), FAC." A separate priority violation noted the pharmacy "did not provide proof of acceptable sewage disposal."
None of the three violations were corrected on site.
What These Violations Mean
A food permit is not a formality. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services requires food establishments to document that their water comes from a public water system or another approved source before they can legally sell perishable food. That requirement exists because water used in food preparation, in cleaning food contact surfaces, and in handwashing directly affects what ends up in a customer's hands or mouth.
When a facility cannot show that documentation, inspectors have no way to verify the safety of the water running through that location. At a pharmacy that sells perishables, that water touches the refrigeration systems, the shelving, and potentially the products themselves.
The sewage disposal requirement is the other side of the same problem. Wastewater from a food establishment that is not routed through an approved facility can introduce contamination risks that are invisible to anyone shopping the aisles. At Navarro's Hialeah location, inspectors found no proof either requirement had been met, as of February 4.
The permits exist so that any outbreak or contamination event can be traced. A facility operating outside the permit system is also operating outside the safety net that makes that tracing possible.
The Longer Record
The February inspection was not an isolated event. State records show that inspectors had visited this same Navarro location at least eight times between November 14, 2025, and April 3, 2026, and each visit produced the same category of finding: operating without a valid food permit, with re-inspections required each time.
The first inspection in the record, on November 14, 2025, turned up three violations. The next visit, December 8, produced three more. December 22, three more. January 5, January 21, March 5, each time three violations, each time a re-inspection required.
By March 20, the violation count had dropped to one, but that single violation was marked as a repeat. The April 3 focused inspection also recorded one violation, also marked repeat.
That pattern is notable. A facility that accumulates nine consecutive inspections under the banner of permit noncompliance, across nearly five months, is not dealing with a paperwork oversight. The permit issue was still flagged as recently as April 2026, more than four months after the first documented citation.
Where Things Stood
As of the February 4 inspection, the pharmacy had not resolved the two priority violations tied to water supply and sewage disposal documentation, and a re-inspection was required. The store was classified as a Minor Outlet with Perishables, meaning it sells food items that require temperature control or have a limited shelf life.
The violations from that visit were not corrected on site. The record does not show any notation of corrective action taken during the inspection itself.
The April 3, 2026 focused inspection, the most recent in the dataset, still listed one repeat violation connected to the same permit deficiency that first brought inspectors to the location in November 2025.