A specialty cheese and sour cream plant in Kenton that was shut down this week by the Food and Drug Administration had been flagged repeatedly for health violations by both state and federal inspectors in recent years, public records show.
Federal inspectors who shut down the Roos Foods Inc. plant made infrequent visits in recent years, and state inspectors who visited the plant quarterly did not document the type of serious food safety problems that led to the closure, records show.
Federal inspectors documented the worst food safety violations at Roos Foods during a review of a federally regulated cheese production area of the plant. Delaware health officials said they were not allowed to inspect that area but regularly visited an area where sour cream was produced. State inspectors frequently found food safety violations during those visits, but not the type of dangerous conditions that federal inspectors later documented in the cheese production area, state health officials said Wednesday.
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