CLERMONT, FL. Inspectors visiting OMG Juice on East Highway 50 on July 17, 2026 found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, meaning the ingredients being blended and served to customers that day had bypassed federal safety inspections entirely.
That was one of seven high-severity violations documented during the visit. The facility was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The unapproved food sourcing violation is significant on its own. When ingredients enter a kitchen without passing through licensed distributors or USDA or FDA-inspected channels, there is no chain of custody if a customer becomes sick. Traceback investigations, which health authorities rely on to contain outbreaks, become nearly impossible.
Inspectors also cited the facility for failing to follow parasite destruction procedures. For certain fish and proteins, state and federal food codes require specific freezing temperatures or cooking thresholds to kill parasites including Anisakis and Trichinella. The citation indicates those steps were not being taken.
Toxic chemicals were found improperly stored or labeled. In a facility where produce is washed, cut, and blended in close proximity to cleaning supplies, a mislabeled or misplaced chemical container is a direct contamination pathway.
The allergen violation adds another layer of concern. Inspectors documented that no allergen awareness was demonstrated by staff. For customers with serious allergies to tree nuts, soy, or other common juice bar ingredients, an employee who cannot identify allergens in a product is not a minor gap. It is the last line of defense before a customer ends up in an emergency room.
Food contact surfaces, the blenders, cutting boards, and prep areas where ingredients are processed, were cited as not properly cleaned or sanitized. Inspectors also found food in poor condition, mislabeled, or adulterated, and documented improper handwashing technique, meaning employees were going through the motions of handwashing without the technique that actually removes pathogens.
What These Violations Mean
The combination of unapproved food sourcing and no parasite destruction procedures is not a paperwork problem. It means customers had no assurance that the ingredients in their drinks had been inspected for Listeria, Salmonella, or parasitic contamination before those ingredients were processed and handed across the counter.
Improper handwashing technique is a violation that often gets dismissed as minor because an employee did technically wash their hands. But technique matters. Inadequate scrubbing time, skipping the wrist and forearm, or rinsing without soap contact all leave viable pathogens on hands that then transfer directly to food and drink surfaces.
The allergen citation at OMG Juice is particularly acute for a juice bar. Customers with tree nut or soy allergies frequently seek out juice bars as a safer alternative to restaurants, operating on the assumption that staff can identify what is in each product. When inspectors document that no allergen awareness was demonstrated, that assumption is not warranted.
Equipment in poor repair compounds the cleaning and sanitation failures. Cracked blender jars, corroded gaskets, and chipped surfaces cannot be effectively sanitized regardless of how often they are cleaned, because bacteria colonize the microscopic gaps that cleaning cloths cannot reach.
The Longer Record
The July 2026 inspection was not an aberration. OMG Juice has accumulated 166 violations across 23 inspections on record, and the trajectory over the past several years shows a facility that has repeatedly cycled through serious findings without sustained improvement.
The inspection immediately before this one, conducted in July 2025, produced six high-severity violations and two intermediate violations. The year before that, in August 2024, inspectors found three high-severity violations and one intermediate. The pattern of elevated findings in summer inspections, the busiest period for a juice bar, has repeated across multiple years.
A February 2023 inspection found one high-severity violation. A December 2022 inspection found four high-severity violations and two intermediate. The facility has never been emergency-closed in its inspection history on record, which stretches back through at least 23 documented visits.
The 2021 and early 2022 inspections show a facility that was capable of clean results. A March 2021 inspection produced zero violations at any severity level. A March 2022 inspection found zero high-severity violations. The subsequent years have moved in the opposite direction.
Still Open
Seven high-severity violations, including food from an unapproved source, no allergen awareness, improper parasite destruction, and toxic chemicals stored incorrectly near food, were enough to generate a detailed inspection report.
They were not enough to close the facility.
OMG Juice on East Highway 50 remained open following the July 17 inspection. Customers who visited that week had no indication from the front of the house that anything documented inside had changed.
