Dead and live German cockroaches, egg sac found at Sacramento-area restaurant.
Sacramento County Health Inspectors closed a Southern American Sacramento eatery after discovering health food violations including dozens of dead and alive cockroaches in facility.
What do these inspections mean?
While a yellow placard signals two or more major violations, these are typically corrected or mitigated during the inspection, according to the Sacramento County Retail Food Inspection Guide.
A red placard, however, signals “imminent danger to public health and safety” and suspends an establishment’s health permit until violations are corrected. This could include, but is not limited to, major vermin contamination.
In contrast, a green placard means a restaurant passed inspection.
The county performs about 14,000 inspections annually and about 97% of establishments pass, spokesman Ken Casparis previously told The Sacramento Bee.
Approximately 1% of inspections result in a closure, he said.
These were the results of Sacramento County food facility inspections for Thursday, June 18, through Wednesday, June 24, as of Thursday, June 25. If an inspection listed below needs clarification, business owners can email The Sacramento Bee at servicejournalists@sacbee.com.
How to report a business to the health department
For readers who would like to report a local restaurant, food truck or café on health violations, they can do so by filing a complaint to the facility’s local environmental health departments.
The local health department is responsible for the initial investigation of consumer complaints regarding foods served or sold at retail food facilities, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Businesses temporarily closed by health inspectors
Louisiana Heaven
6623 Valley Hi Drive, Suite A, Sacramento
Number of violations: 5
Date: Wednesday, June 24
- Health inspectors gave a red placard to the Valley Hi/North Laguna Louisiana restaurant after finding 15-20 dead German cockroaches in a glue trap between the front handwash sink.
- 17 dead and live German cockroaches elsewhere in the facility, including below the three compartment sink, by the floor sink and at shelf below the front register.
- 1 cockroach egg sac observed at shelf below front register.
- Health inspectors observed a slow-draining floor sink next to the upright cooler.
- Heavy grease and debris accumulation was observed on the floor below, at the wall behind and plumbing of the main cook’s line equipment, on the floor in between the kitchen upright cooler and on the plumbing leading into the front floor sink.
- The facility’s ventilation hood had heavy oil, grease and dust accumulation.
Louisiana Heaven had yet to be reinspected as of Thursday, June 25.
