HIALEAH, FL. Back in March 2026, state agriculture inspectors cited a Hialeah Navarro Discount Pharmacy for operating without a valid food permit, a finding that had already appeared in inspection records going back to November 2025.
The March 5 inspection of Navarro Discount Pharmacy #11601, a minor outlet with perishables on file with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, turned up three violations, two of them priority level. None were corrected on site.
What Inspectors Found
Navarro #11601 Hialeah: Inspection History, Nov. 2025 to Apr. 2026
The inspector's notes from March 5 were direct. "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," the report states.
The two priority violations broke that finding into specific components. On water, 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." On sewage, the report noted the pharmacy "did not provide proof of acceptable sewage disposal."
Both priority violations were flagged as requiring a re-inspection. Neither was resolved during the visit.
What These Violations Mean
A valid food permit is the baseline requirement for any establishment that sells perishable food to the public. Without one, state regulators have not confirmed that the facility meets the minimum safety standards for handling, storing, or selling food items that can spoil or carry pathogens.
The water source documentation requirement exists for a specific reason. If a store's water supply has not been verified as coming from an approved public water system, there is no confirmed assurance that water used on the premises, whether for rinsing produce, cleaning surfaces, or any food-contact purpose, meets safety standards. For shoppers buying ready-to-eat items or fresh produce at a pharmacy that also sells groceries, that gap is not abstract.
The sewage disposal documentation requirement is equally foundational. Unverified or unapproved sewage disposal creates conditions where contamination can reach a facility's food-handling or food-storage areas. The inspector's notes do not say the sewage system was failing, only that the pharmacy could not produce proof it met state standards.
None of the three violations cited on March 5 were corrected during the inspection.
The Pattern
The March 5 inspection was not the first time these problems appeared in the records for this location. It was the sixth.
FDACS records show inspectors first cited Navarro Discount Pharmacy #11601 for operating without a valid food permit on November 14, 2025. The same three-violation finding reappeared in December, twice. It reappeared in January, twice. It reappeared again in February.
By the time the March 5 inspection was conducted, the pharmacy had accumulated the identical core violation across six consecutive visits over nearly four months.
The Longer Record
The inspection history at this location spans nine FDACS visits between November 2025 and April 2026. Every single one resulted in at least one violation tied to the facility's food permit status.
The March 5 inspection sits in the middle of that sequence, not at the beginning and not at the end. The two visits that followed it, on March 20 and April 3, each recorded one violation, both flagged as repeat citations. The April 3 inspection was labeled a focused inspection, suggesting regulators were still actively pursuing resolution months after the original findings.
A facility accumulating nine inspections over roughly five months, all centered on the same unresolved permitting documentation, presents a different picture than a store cited once and corrected quickly. The record here shows a prolonged period during which the pharmacy continued to sell perishable food while the foundational question of whether its water and sewage systems met state standards remained, by the state's own documentation, unanswered.
The violations from the March 5 inspection were not corrected on site. As of the April 3, 2026 focused inspection, the permit violation remained on record as a repeat citation.