MARGATE, FL. Back in January 2026, state inspectors walked into Orion Mart on Margate and found hemp extract vape cartridges, pre-rolled flower, and kratom products on the retail shelves with no verifiable source, no expiration dates, no ingredient lists, and no certificates of analysis from any independent testing laboratory.
Every one of those products was ordered off the shelves before the inspector left.
What Inspectors Found on the Shelves
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspection on January 13, 2026 produced 17 total violations. Six separate stop sale orders were issued, all for misbranded products under Florida Statutes 500.04 and 500.11.
The hemp extract violations alone ran to ten separate citations. Inspectors noted that the store could not verify the source of hemp extract products including flowers, disposable vape cartridges, and pre-rolls. Those same products were missing the processor or distributor's place of business on the packaging. They had no expiration dates, no serving sizes, no ingredient lists, and no milligram counts for marketed cannabinoids per serving.
The QR codes on some products did not link directly to a certificate of analysis within three or fewer steps, as state law requires. No independent lab certificates existed for the products at all.
The kratom section had its own set of problems. Inspectors found Green Maeng kratom on the shelf with no nutritional panel, no ingredient list, and a label that failed to express the 7-OH concentration in parts per million as required under Florida's emergency rule for kratom products. That product was also voluntarily discarded.
The store was also operating without a valid food permit, a violation marked as a repeat on the inspection report.
The Longer Record
This was not the first time state inspectors flagged Orion Mart for running without a permit. Records show a prior FDACS inspection on March 26, 2024, which also cited the store for operating without a valid food permit and turned up eight violations.
That means the store's permit status was unresolved across at least two inspection cycles spanning nearly two years. The January 2026 report notes that an application had been submitted at the time of inspection, but the permit violation was still marked as a repeat finding.
Two inspections. The same core violation both times.
What These Violations Mean
Operating without a valid food permit means the store was selling food and consumable products outside the state's licensing framework. Permits are not administrative paperwork. They are the mechanism by which regulators track what a facility sells, conduct routine oversight, and intervene when problems arise. A store selling hemp extract and kratom products without a permit is doing so without that oversight layer in place.
The hemp and kratom sourcing violations carry a more direct consumer risk. When inspectors at Orion Mart noted they were "unable to verify source" for hemp extract products, that means there was no documentation trail. If a customer had a reaction to one of those products, there would be no way to trace it back to a manufacturer, a batch, or a testing result.
The missing certificates of analysis are the most acute piece of that puzzle. State law requires hemp extract products to be tested by an independent laboratory, with results accessible via QR code. The products pulled from Orion Mart's shelves either had no such certificates or had QR codes that did not lead to them within the required steps. A shopper buying a disposable vape cartridge or a pre-rolled hemp flower had no way to verify what was in it.
The kratom labeling failures compound that same problem. Green Maeng kratom without a nutritional panel, without ingredients, and without a properly expressed 7-OH concentration gives a customer no basis for understanding what they are consuming or at what concentration.
What Remained Unresolved
The inspection report shows zero violations corrected on site in the traditional sense, though several products were voluntarily discarded and stop sale orders were issued and released for those items. The inspector provided handwashing signs and posted them during the visit, and employee health guidance was distributed.
Beverages stored directly on the floor in the backroom were noted but not corrected before the inspection closed.
The person in charge could not correctly answer questions about foodborne diseases and their symptoms. The store also had no written procedures for employees to follow during a vomiting or diarrheal event. Guidance documents were provided for both, but written procedures were not in place at the time inspectors were on site.
The permit violation, flagged now across two separate inspections, remained the single finding marked as a repeat.