MIAMI, FL. A state inspector visited Throw Social on NE Miami Court on June 18, 2026, and documented that the restaurant was not following parasite destruction procedures for fish, pork, or wild game, a failure that can leave live parasites including Anisakis and Trichinella in food served directly to customers.
That was one of six high-severity violations cited that day. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The parasite destruction citation means the facility lacked documentation or procedures confirming that raw fish, pork, or wild game was frozen or cooked to temperatures sufficient to kill parasites before being served. Inspectors also found that toxic chemicals were improperly stored or labeled, a violation that places cleaning agents and other hazardous substances within reach of food or food preparation surfaces.
Food contact surfaces, the cutting boards, prep tables, and utensils that touch food directly, were cited as not properly cleaned or sanitized. That violation appeared alongside a citation for improper use of time as a public health control, meaning food was being held in the temperature danger zone, between 41 and 135 degrees Fahrenheit, without the documentation required to prove it was tracked and discarded within safe time limits.
Employees were also cited for improper handwashing technique. That is a distinct violation from simply skipping handwashing: it means workers were making handwashing attempts but doing so incorrectly, leaving pathogens on their hands and carrying them back to food. The facility also had no written employee health policy, or an inadequate one, meaning there was no formal system to keep sick workers away from food preparation.
An intermediate violation for inadequate ventilation and lighting rounded out the inspection report.
What These Violations Mean
The parasite destruction failure is the violation with the most direct path to customer illness. When fish or pork is served without verified freezing or cooking protocols, parasites including Anisakis, which burrows into the stomach wall, and Trichinella, which migrates into muscle tissue, can survive and infect anyone who eats the food. There is no symptom at the table. Illness typically appears days later, and the connection to a specific meal is rarely made.
The toxic chemical violation compounds the risk in a different way. Chemicals stored near food or without proper labels can contaminate food directly, and a mislabeled container can lead a worker to apply a cleaning agent to a surface that will then touch food. Chemical poisoning from this kind of contamination is acute: it does not take repeated exposure.
The handwashing technique citation and the absence of an employee health policy work together as a transmission system. An employee who is sick, who has no formal policy telling them to stay home, and who washes their hands incorrectly before handling food represents a direct route for Norovirus and other pathogens to reach customers. Norovirus causes roughly 20 million illnesses in the United States each year, and food handlers are one of its primary vectors.
The time-as-public-health-control violation means food was being held at unsafe temperatures without the logging and discard procedures the state requires as a substitute for refrigeration. When that documentation is absent, there is no way to verify that food held in the danger zone was actually discarded within the required window.
The Longer Record
Throw Social has two inspections on record with the state. The first, in December 2025, produced one high-severity violation and zero intermediate violations. The June 2026 inspection produced six high-severity violations and one intermediate, bringing the facility's total violation count to ten across both inspections.
The jump from one high-severity citation to six in a single inspection is significant. The December 2025 visit did not result in a closure, and neither did the June 2026 visit despite a violation count six times higher in the high-severity category alone.
The facility has no prior emergency closures on record. That is a fact the state's enforcement history will now need to account for, given that the June inspection documented failures across food safety fundamentals including parasite control, chemical storage, surface sanitation, handwashing, and employee illness policy simultaneously.
Open for Business
State inspectors have the authority to order an emergency closure when violations pose an immediate threat to public health. Six high-severity violations at a single inspection, including a parasite destruction failure and improperly stored toxic chemicals, meet the threshold that triggers that review.
Throw Social was not closed.
The restaurant at 2301 NE Miami Court continued operating after the June 18, 2026 inspection with all six high-severity violations documented in the state record.