Health Inspectors, what's the worst violation you've ever seen?

Former inspector here, I once discovered a rat infestation in the kitchen of a hospital.

They asked me if I could prove my suspicions, and I pointed out the numerous foodstuffs

with one to two inch circular holes chewed in them, but they didn't seem convinced.

I showed them the trail of droppings and footprints coming and going from a hole in the floor drain, but they still didn't seem convinced. I showed them the trail of droppings and footprints coming and

going from a hole in the floor drain, but they still didn't seem convinced. I showed them the three

dead rats I'd discovered under and around equipment. I think they began to believe me at that point.

Citations included rat infestation and absolutely deplorable cleaning practices.

Used to have a job working as an inspector

for storage tanks at places like dairies and factories. Went to a cheesecake factory, an actual

factory for cheesecakes, not the restaurant chain, to test a milk storage tank. It had just

been cleaned and was being prepped to be filled with a tanker full of milk. I noticed the

floor of the tank was covered in bleach. It turned out the floor manager couldn't be asked to

spend the time sucking out the rest of the cleaning fluid used in the cleaning process,

and, as a standard, just filled the tank with milk on top of dozens of gallons of bleach.

His theory was that there was enough milk to dilute the bleach

to acceptable consumption levels. I wrote a report and he was promptly fired. By the way, my 12

gallon estimate is just that, an estimate. It was a huge milk storage silo, 40,000 litres, if I recall,

and roughly half an inch of the floor of the tank was covered in cleaning fluid. The dilutions we're talking about probably wouldn't have been harmful or even

tasteable after being pasteurized and mixed with cheesecake ingredients. But that's also a guess,

and it's also not the point. My gosh, you already went through the trouble of cleaning it.

What the heck was an extra five minutes to properly finish the job? Glad he got fired. It was something to do with the extra

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