Restaurant Inspections: Chipotle, Hunan Panda, Thai by Thai Lil Italian Pizza and IL Poom Hyang

Inspectors from the Virginia Department of Health visited several local restaurants recently. See a sampling of those results below, and visit the health department's website for a complete list of recent inspections.

"In our experience, it is unrealistic to expect that a complex, full-service food operation can routinely avoid any violations,"according to Virginia Department of Health's website.

The site continues: "Keep in mind that any inspection report is a 'snapshot' of the day and time of the inspection. On any given day, a restaurant could have fewer or more violations than noted in the report. An inspection conducted on any given day may not be representative of the overall, long term cleanliness of an establishment."

Chipotle Mexican Grill, 9506 Main Street  
Aug. 8, 2013
No critical violations.

IL Poom Hyang, 4068 Jermantown Rd  
Aug. 8, 2013
Three critical violations:

• The person in charge failed to explain the correct procedures for cleaning and sanitizing utensils and food-contact surfaces of equipment.
• Inadequate record keeping system for molluscan shellfish when removed from their tagged or labeled container.
• The following food item(s) were observed cold holding at improper temperatures using a calibrated food temperature measuring device: Chicken tub a - 64F, chicken tub b - 67F @ #4.

• When tested, the low temperature, chemical sanitizing warewashing machine was observed with a sanitizing rinse concentration of less than 50 ppm chlorine solution.---0ppm, chlorine sanitizer out of stock.
• The following cooked potentially hazardous foods are not being adequately cooled from 135°F to 70°F within 2 hours and to 41°F within a total of 6 hour: red curry cooling for over 6 hours in the kitchen observed at 94°F.
• The following refrigerated, ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food that is prepared on site is not used or discarded within 24 hours of preparation and was not observed to be date marked: cooked chicken wings-8/05/13, fried tofu-8/05/13.