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芝加哥美食节的食品安全失误,在第一盘食物端上桌前就已开始
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芝加哥美食节开幕当天,哈罗德鸡(Harold’s Chicken)餐车不得不丢弃约210磅食物。检查人员发现,预先烹制的鸡肉存放温度不当。节日期间稍晚些时候,Ponce餐厅因温度问题丢弃了至少95磅猪肉、芭蕉、莴苣和西红柿。五天里,至少800磅食物被撤下供应——不是因为顾客不愿购买,而是因为检查人员发现这些食物未得到安全保存。2
这些损失是WBEZ/《芝加哥太阳时报》新近发表的一项关于2026年美食节的调查中最具体可见的后果。调查结果揭示了两个截然不同的问题:供餐期间普遍难以将食物维持在安全温度;而在筛查环节,提交符合市府申请要求的检查记录的摊商不到一半。2
这项由安巴尔·科隆(Ambar Colón)和卡姆·罗德里格斯(Cam Rodriguez)进行的调查于11月2日发表,依据的是通过《信息自由法》取得的数千页市府记录。以下发现来自他们的分析;本报告无法独立查阅链接中的各份美食节检查档案。81家摊商中有58家(约72%)至少收到一项违规记录。10家累计五项或以上,其中两家各有9项。2
检查人员在供餐期间发现问题
检查结果中,温度控制问题最为突出:82项违规涉及食物存放温度不当,另有7项涉及冷藏设备和设施故障。这两类问题合计占美食节违规总数的一半以上。除哈罗德鸡餐车外,至少还有40家摊商因冷热食物存放不当而被开出违规记录。2
在美食节期间,发现一项或多项违规意味着摊商未通过当次检查,但并不自动意味着停业。检查人员会返回现场,检查整改情况,并要求丢弃食物。记录中还包括垃圾溢出、水槽堵塞或排水缓慢、缺少食品安全许可证,以及员工穿背心等问题。这些问题的严重程度并不相同:不应将着装违规与鸡肉存放不当视为同等危险的证据。2
有些违规涉及美食节特有的限制。Josephine’s Southern Cooking因在现场洗碗和备餐而被开出违规记录;调查提到,这两种行为都不符合规定。最后一天,检查人员发现有人在其帐篷后方、公园树篱旁的一张折叠桌上包虾饺。记录中明确的是在树篱旁备餐,而不是证明食物被直接放进灌木丛里。2
筛查缺口在开幕前就已出现
市府的申请标准很明确:参与商家必须提交资质证明,以及申请前六个月内对其固定餐厅或餐车进行的合格检查记录。81家摊商中,只有35家提交了符合时间和合格标准的检查记录。2
这并不意味着其他46家从未通过检查。调查称,美食节开幕前,所有餐饮摊商的档案里最终都有一份合格记录,但有些记录已经过期,另一些则是有条件通过。所谓有条件通过,是指检查人员发现了他们认为并未构成即时食品安全危害的违规问题。之后通过复查,可能改善商家的检查记录,但并不满足申请时必须先行通过检查的要求。2
这一区别很重要,但不能因此忽略筛查失灵的问题。如果市府设定了明确的准入要求,摊商档案里某处存在某种形式的合格记录,并不等于市府落实了这项要求。芝加哥文化事务与特别活动部(DCASE)主办美食节;伊利诺伊州餐饮业协会则为该部门管理餐饮运营。13
有9家餐厅在申请后、开幕日前,未能通过其固定经营地点的检查。Ponce说明了为什么需要按时间顺序看待这段记录。该餐厅于4月21日申请,随后在6月24日的餐厅检查中未通过。检查报告记录了后方储藏区、冰柜后面和置物架后约35处鼠粪,以及开封食品包装标签不当。但Ponce在7月2日复查时通过,时间早于美食节开幕。后续报告未发现虫害或虫害防治问题,不过没有说明这些鼠粪是如何处理的。2
在美食节期间,Ponce在开幕日的四次检查中有三次未通过,问题包括食物存放温度不当。之后,该餐厅又因温度问题丢弃了至少95磅食物。Ponce没有回应调查媒体提出的多次置评请求。2
Yummy Halal的餐车在美食节开幕前22天、即6月16日的检查中未通过。检查人员在车厢地板上发现约40处或更多鼠粪,且废水从车外水箱流到街上。在美食节期间,该餐车五次检查未通过,问题包括食物温度不当和未佩戴头发防护用品。后来,因现场没有持证经理,检查人员将其停业一天。这是7月美食节期间的临时停业,并不代表该商家现在已经关门。Yummy Halal没有回应媒体的置评请求。2
冰箱争议仍未解决
申请检查符合要求,并不保证美食节期间的运营安全。Oooh Wee Smothered是查塔姆区Oooh We! It Is!的衍生品牌,在申请前约一个半月通过了一次检查,记录良好。然而,该摊商在美食节两天内累计出现9项违规。首次检查未通过,问题包括温度不当、持证负责人不在场,以及熟鸡肉被放在此前盛过生鸡肉的容器里。持证负责人随后返回,相关食物也被丢弃。之后发现的问题包括基于蛋黄酱的酱料温度过高、冷藏箱温度过高,以及在现场备餐,而这不被允许。2
查塔姆区Oooh We! It Is!的经理理查德·利特尔(Richard Little)提出了一种解释,认为问题不止于摊商自身行为。他告诉记者,DCASE提供的冷藏拖车由7至10家商家共用,第一天发生故障,餐厅对此没有责任。他说自己曾联系DCASE要求赔偿,但没有得到任何补偿。2
利特尔还谈到执法不一致:一名检查员允许在帐篷里切青番茄,另一名检查员数小时后却禁止这样做。他抱怨的并不是不安全食品应该继续出售。他支持在检查人员要求时丢弃食物,以保护顾客,同时认为冷藏和检查工作本可以处理得更顺畅。2
市长办公室作出了更广泛的保证:“市府将继续通过芝加哥公共卫生部(CDPH),优先加强食品安全检查、执法和合规工作。”办公室提到了跨部门合作和预防性公共宣传。但这一回应没有解释为什么这么多申请检查记录不符合已公布的要求,也没有解决冷藏争议,或说明未来举办美食节时将作出哪些具体改变。2
芝加哥有理由认真对待这些尚未得到答复的问题,但不应夸大今年证据所能说明的情况。2007年,与美食节摊商Pars Cove Persian Cuisine的鹰嘴豆泥有关的沙门氏菌导致300多人患病。目前没有迹象表明2026年活动发生了类似疫情。2
检查人员的干预确实发挥了作用:反复检查、要求整改、大量丢弃食物,以及停业一天。但在供餐期间发现问题,无法替代对准入要求的落实,也不能确保共用设备正常运作。市府接下来的义务不是再作出一项泛泛的安全优先承诺,而是解释究竟哪里出了问题,并提出具体改变,降低同样的问题下次再发生的可能性。
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- City of Chicago :: Food Establishment Inspection Reports
- City of Chicago :: Taste of Chicago
- City of Chicago :: DCASE 2026 Festival and Event Dates
- City of Chicago :: Taste of Chicago Returns to July, Driving Tourism, Economic Activity and Five Days of Food, Music and Family Fun
- City of Chicago :: Taste of Chicago Schedule
- City of Chicago :: Mayor Brandon Johnson and DCASE Announce Dates for Blockbuster Lineup of 2026 Festivals and Events
- City of Chicago :: Taste of Chicago - Plan Your Visit
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Cook County Chroniclecookcountychronicle.com1
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播出原貌
- Taste of Chicago vendors discarded at least 800 pounds of food held at unsafe temperatures.
- Inspectors logged more than 160 health-code violations at a festival serving thousands. Fewer than half the vendors met the city's application inspection requirement. What failed before vendors arrived, and what did inspectors have to do once food service began?
- Fifty-eight of the festival's 81 vendors received at least one violation. That's more than 70 percent of participants. Ten vendors had five or more violations, and two had nine each.
- Taste ran from July eighth through twelfth, 2026, in Grant Park. Its vendors served regional and international dishes to thousands of people over five days.
- The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, known as DCASE, produces Taste. The Illinois Restaurant Association manages its food operations. During the festival, inspectors failed vendors whenever they found a violation. They returned for repeat inspections, checked corrections and ordered food discarded.
- Inspectors recorded 82 violations for holding food at incorrect temperatures, plus seven involving faulty coolers and facilities. Together, those problems accounted for more than half of all the festival's violations.
- A Harold's Chicken food truck discarded about 210 pounds on the first day after inspectors found precooked chicken at improper temperatures. At least 40 other vendors were cited for improper hot or cold holding. Inspectors' disposal orders removed food from service as they found problems.
- Inspectors also found overflowing garbage, backed-up or slow-draining sinks, missing food-safety licenses and employees in tank tops. Those findings ranged from drainage and clothing issues to unsafe food handling and storage.
- Only 35 vendors met the application inspection standard. Businesses were supposed to submit certifications and a clean inspection of their permanent restaurant or food truck. That inspection had to fall within the six months before they applied.
- Those 35 of 81 vendors supplied an inspection that met the city's timing and pass requirements. Every food vendor ultimately had a pass on file before Taste, but some passes were outdated and some were conditional.
- A conditional pass means inspectors found violations they didn't consider an immediate food-safety hazard. An older pass, or one obtained later, could still leave a business outside the application rule. Nine restaurants also failed inspections at their permanent locations between applying and the festival's opening.
- Ponce Restaurant applied on April twenty-first, then failed its restaurant inspection on June twenty-fourth. But it passed a reinspection on July second, before Taste opened. That later inspection listed no pest or pest-control issues.
- The June inspection found about 35 mouse droppings in rear storage and behind freezers and racks. Inspectors also found opened food packages without proper labels. At Taste, Ponce failed three of four inspections on opening day, with improper holding temperatures among the findings.
- A few days later, temperature problems forced Ponce to discard at least 95 pounds of pork, plantains, lettuce and tomatoes. The restaurant didn't respond to several requests for comment.
- Yummy Halal's food truck failed an inspection on June sixteenth, 22 days before Taste. Inspectors found about 40 or more rat droppings on its floor. Wastewater was also flowing from an exterior water tank onto a city street.
- At Taste, Yummy Halal failed five inspections, including for improper food temperatures and missing hair restraints. Inspectors later shut it down for the day because it lacked a certified manager on site. The business didn't respond to requests for comment.
- Josephine's Southern Cooking applied with an outdated inspection, then passed another before the festival. At Taste, inspectors cited it for washing dishes and preparing food on site, both prohibited under the festival's rules.
- On the last day, inspectors failed Josephine's booth after finding shrimp dumplings being filled on a folding table behind its tent, beside the park's hedges.
- Oooh Wee Smothered had a qualifying clean inspection about a month and a half before applying. The business, a spin-off of Chatham's Oooh We! It Is!, still accumulated nine violations across two festival days. Its first failure included improper temperatures and cooked chicken stored in a container previously used for raw chicken.
- Its certificate holder was also absent, then returned, and the food was discarded. Later findings included on-site preparation, an overly warm mayonnaise-based sauce and a cooler that was too warm. Inspectors cited green-tomato chopping on day four.
- Richard Little, manager of the Chatham Oooh We! It Is!, says shared refrigeration failed on the first day. He described DCASE-provided cold-storage trailers shared by seven to 10 businesses. He says the malfunction happened through no fault of the restaurant.
- Little says he contacted DCASE about reimbursement and never received compensation. DCASE says an outside company supplied the trailers and there were no reports of malfunctioning trailers. The disagreement hasn't been resolved.
- Little also says one inspector allowed tomato chopping at the tent, while another prohibited it hours later. He described the time, money and resources businesses invest in Taste. He said he appreciated participating, wanted smoother inspections and refrigeration, and supported discarding food when inspectors required it to protect customers.
- The mayor's office says the city continues to strengthen food-safety inspections, enforcement and compliance. It pointed to cooperation across agencies and preventive public messaging. It hasn't explained how so many application inspections fell outside the stated requirement.
- Chicago has experienced a Taste-related outbreak before. In 2007, salmonella associated with hummus from Pars Cove Persian Cuisine sickened more than 300 people. For the 2026 festival, the health department hasn't indicated signs of foodborne illness.
- This year's inspections led to repeated corrections, at least 800 pounds of discarded food and Yummy Halal's day-long shutdown. The city hasn't said how it will enforce the application standard at a future Taste or what changes it will make to shared refrigeration and festival inspections.
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