An apparent rodent problem has led to the Allegheny County Health Department issuing a Consumer Alert for a Pittsburgh bakery after an inspection.
Five Points Artisan Bakery on Wilkins Avenue in Squirrel Hill was hit with 12 violations, including two considered “high-risk”.
The alert was posted after an inspection on Tuesday and remains active, as of Thursday, November 21.
The inspection says that a slicer on a shelf had rodent droppings on i. A knife on a prep table had old food on it (repeat violation).
Other repeat violations observed include “the can opener at the front prep table, bus bins were used to proof dough and “too many to count sheet pans” were all soiled.
Rodent droppings were found in between walls in the wall frame behind a furnace, along the wall in the furnace room, in a gap between the wall and walk-in cooler, under and out of service cooler and behind “the two-door reach-in freezer and underneath the adjacent dunnage racks in the front area.”
A “severely decomposed mouse corpse” was also found behind a walk-in cooler condenser.
See the entire inspection here, as well as any updates to the Consumer Alert.