POMPANO BEACH, FL. A state inspector visited Pompano Pizza at 1606 S. Cypress Road on June 2, 2026, and documented that food was not being cooked to the required minimum temperature, that parasite destruction procedures were not being followed for fish or other at-risk proteins, and that no consumer advisory existed to warn customers who might be ordering raw or undercooked items. The restaurant was not closed.
The inspection turned up 10 high-severity violations and 2 intermediate violations in a single visit, one of the most serious inspection records a Broward County food establishment can accumulate without triggering an emergency shutdown.
What Inspectors Found
The undercooking citation is among the most direct public health risks a food inspector can document. Salmonella in poultry survives below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. At a pizza shop where proteins move from prep to oven to customer without reaching safe internal temperatures, that gap between what the thermometer reads and what it needs to read is the precise window in which an illness begins.
The parasite destruction citation compounds that picture. Fish and other proteins require specific freezing protocols, typically 0 degrees Fahrenheit for 168 hours or equivalent, before they can be served raw or undercooked. Without those protocols in place, parasites including Anisakis and Trichinella remain viable and reach the customer's plate.
The inspector also cited the restaurant for failing to post a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked menu items. That advisory is the last line of communication between the kitchen and the customer, particularly for elderly diners, pregnant women, and anyone with a compromised immune system who might make a different choice if they knew what they were ordering.
Handwashing drew two separate high-severity citations: one for inadequate handwashing by food employees, and a second for improper technique. The state treats these as distinct violations because an employee can go through the motions of handwashing and still leave pathogens on their hands if the duration, soap use, or method is wrong.
The employee illness picture was equally stark. The inspector found no written employee health policy, and found that employees were not reporting symptoms of illness. Those two citations together describe a kitchen with no formal mechanism for keeping a sick worker away from food.
The person in charge was cited for not being present or not performing supervisory duties. State data consistently shows that kitchens without active managerial oversight accumulate critical violations at roughly three times the rate of those with engaged management on the floor.
What These Violations Mean
The combination of undercooking and missing parasite destruction procedures at Pompano Pizza describes a facility where food may be reaching customers at temperatures and in conditions that allow pathogens and parasites to survive. Those are not abstract regulatory failures. Salmonella causes an estimated 1.35 million infections annually in the United States. Anisakis infections require the parasite to be surgically or endoscopically removed in severe cases.
The illness reporting violations add a separate transmission pathway. Norovirus, which causes roughly 20 million illnesses in the United States each year, spreads efficiently from infected food workers to customers through direct food contact. A kitchen with no health policy and no expectation that workers report symptoms is a kitchen where a sick employee has no formal reason to stay home or step away from food preparation.
The sewage and wastewater disposal citation, listed as intermediate, carries its own weight. Improper sewage handling introduces fecal contamination risk throughout the facility, affecting surfaces, equipment, and food that employees then handle. That citation, alongside two separate handwashing failures, closes a contamination loop that runs from waste to hands to food.
The Longer Record
The June 2 inspection was not Pompano Pizza's first serious encounter with state inspectors. The facility has 36 inspections on record and 227 total violations documented across its history.
The most recent prior inspection, on January 22, 2026, turned up 6 high-severity violations and 1 intermediate violation. The inspection before that, in September 2025, found 1 high and 1 intermediate. The facility passed cleanly in December 2024, then returned to 2 high-severity violations just days earlier in that same month.
The restaurant was emergency-closed once before, on August 30, 2023, after inspectors found no functioning handwashing sink. It reopened the following day.
Still Open
The pattern across 36 inspections shows a facility that oscillates between marginal compliance and significant violations, with the June 2 inspection representing its worst single-visit record in the data available. The January 2026 visit produced 6 high-severity violations. Five months later, that number had climbed to 10.
State rules permit inspectors to leave a facility open if violations, even high-severity ones, do not meet the specific threshold for an emergency closure order. Pompano Pizza met that threshold once, in August 2023, over a missing handwashing sink.
On June 2, 2026, with 10 high-severity violations documented including undercooking, parasite risk, no illness policy, and two separate handwashing failures, the restaurant remained open for business.