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SDSU food services have room for improvement when it comes to food safety.
The South Dakota Department of Health has conducted two routine health inspections of dinning services this year. The inspection results were obtained by
The Collegian under South Dakota’s open records law. What’s revealed by the inspections include troubling details about some of SDSU’s dining options.
Restaurants like SDSU Dinning Services are evaluated using a 100-point system. Violations of the health code are assigned a value ranging from one to five and are subtracted from 100 to arrive at the inspection score. Neither the Larson Commons nor the Medary Commons food service locations scored above 90 points this year.
Larson Commons scored 85 in February and again in September. In February, the state inspector found cleanliness to be the biggest issue at Larson.
Employees were failing to wash their hands and equipment was not being properly cleaned. During its second inspection there were no less than five violations repeated — again the issue was cleanliness. The September inspection also found that raw animal foods like meat were being stored near food that was ready-to-serve, creating a potential contamination hazard.
Medary Commons scored 87 in both of its inspections also conducted in February and September. In Februa
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