- broken and cracked floors;
- dirt, trash and food debris;
- leaking pipes;
- mold-like residues;
- inoperable hand-washing stations;
- multiple examples of broken and worn equipment and surfaces that were impossible to clean and sanitize;
- external doors left open, allowing possible entry of rodents and other pests, and,
- bathroom doors leading into a processing room left open, possibly exposing food to airborne pathogens.
FDA posted three reports this week from inspections of CRF’s Pasco, WA, production facility detailing the food safety violations. In one of the reports, from the most recent inspection done March 14-18 of this year, FDA inspectors included a discussion of complaints from 2009 and 2011 involving consumers finding dead rodents in bags of frozen vegetables. According to the inspection report, the company’s director of quality assurance, Emily Camp, told the inspectors those complaints pre-dated her tenure with CRF, but that she understood the firm had installed something to prevent “foreign materials from being integrated with product.”