BOCA RATON, FL. On July 27, state inspectors walked into Seabra Bakery and Cafe at 465-475 NE Spanish River Blvd and found food from unapproved or unknown sources being served to customers, a violation that means there is no way to trace where that food came from if someone gets sick.
That was one of ten high-severity violations documented in a single visit. The facility remained open.
What Inspectors Found
The ten high-severity citations covered nearly every critical control point in a food service operation. Inspectors found that food was not being cooked to the minimum required temperature, that food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized, and that employees were not reporting symptoms of illness.
Two separate handwashing violations were documented on the same visit: employees were not washing hands adequately, and when they did attempt to wash, the technique was incorrect. Both were cited as high-severity.
Inspectors also found that the facility was serving shellfish without adequate shell stock identification records, meaning there was no documentation to trace where the oysters, clams, or mussels came from. No consumer advisory was posted to warn customers that raw or undercooked items were on the menu. And no person in charge was present or performing supervisory duties during the inspection.
The facility was ordered closed the same day, but for a different reason: fly activity. It reopened the following day, July 28, after a follow-up inspection found zero high-severity and zero intermediate violations.
What These Violations Mean
The food from unapproved sources citation is among the most serious in the inspection record. When food bypasses licensed suppliers and USDA or FDA inspection checkpoints, there is no documentation trail if a customer becomes ill. Investigators cannot identify the source, cannot issue a recall, and cannot determine how many other customers were exposed.
The undercooking violation compounds that risk directly. Salmonella in poultry survives below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. If the food is also coming from an unverified source, inspectors have no way to know what pathogens may have been present before cooking began.
The two handwashing violations together describe a kitchen where the most basic contamination barrier was not functioning. Employees who do not wash hands, or who wash incorrectly, transfer pathogens from raw food, surfaces, and their own bodies onto everything they subsequently touch. The food contact surface violation means those surfaces were not eliminating contamination between uses either.
The illness reporting failure is the one that most directly implicates customers who ate there without knowing. Norovirus spreads through a single infected food handler who continues working. The violation means no system was in place to keep symptomatic employees out of the kitchen.
The Longer Record
Seabra Bakery and Cafe: Inspection History
Seabra Bakery and Cafe has accumulated 51 total violations across 10 inspections on record. Of the eight routine inspections with violations documented, only two came back clean.
Every inspection since August 2023 has included at least two high-severity citations. The July 2026 visit, with ten, was not a departure from a facility that had been running cleanly. It was the worst single inspection in a record that has never shown sustained compliance.
The prior emergency closure, also on July 27, was for fly activity. The facility cleared that closure in one day. The ten high-severity violations that accompanied it were a separate matter.
After the July 28 follow-up, inspectors recorded zero violations. The bakery is open.
