We just finished reading what may go down is history as one of the most disgusting food safety articles of all time.  A reporter for ABC 13 in Las Vegas, NV decided to investigate the local restaurants who failed their health inspections and find out whether or not they had cleaned up their act.   As the article mentions, the goal was not to ruin anyone’s business, but to keep the consumer public informed about potentially hazardous health violations in their area.  We suggest every food worker should read it–kind of a list of what NOT to do.  Here are some of the highlights:

• The Health inspector found pork being stored in the mechanical room of one Las Vegas Mexican restaurant.  It was inside an open, dirty cardboard box.
• The same Mexican restaurant was keeping ice for beverages in a garbage can.
• At an Asian restaurant located on the Strip in Las Vegas, they found lemons so moldy it was almost impossible to tell what they were.
• That same location had kitchen tongs hanging in the bathroom next to an open toilet.
• An Indian restaurant had ants crawling in their condiments and a bloated can of evaporated milk still in use.
• A cafe’ had expired milk in the fridge and cheese stored in the temperature danger zone.  The owners response?  “Can anybody die from that?”

For the full article (and a video) click here.