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Cruise Ship: Diamond Princess Cruise Line: Princess Cruises Inspection Date: 07/14/2007 Inspection Score: 98
This cruise ship inspection report lists deficiencies found during the inspection. Additional information corresponding to each item number is available in the latest edition of the VSP Environmental Public Health Standards.

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Item No.: 08
Site: Potable Water-Potable Water - Production
Violation: The potable water production chart record had manual readings above the chart recorded marks which was a different value. This was repeated throughout each day and every 4 hours, with no explanation, calibration noted, or other correction to establish what the accurate values were.
Recommendation: Ensure that free residual halogen monitoring is performed at least hourly during the bunkering of potable water and performed at least once every 4 hours during the onboard production of potable water. Ensure that accurate records of this monitoring are maintained aboard for 12 months and are available to the VSP for review during inspections.
Item No.: 08
Site: Potable Water-Cross- Connection Records
Violation: The backflow preventers established for various Ecolab supplied chemical dispensing equipment was not included in the listing of devices held onboard and was not part of the scheduled inspection process.
Recommendation: Ensure that the cross-connection control program includes at minimum: a complete listing of cross-connections and the backflow prevention method/device for each, so that there is a match to the plumbing system component and location, and an inspection frequency. Ensure that air-gaps are included in the listing.
Item No.: 08
Site: Potable Water-Engine Room
Violation: The handwash sink located beside the sewage waste only sink was fitted with a short hose from the spigot which terminated into the sink basin, creating a submerged inlet. There was no backflow preventer installed on the potable water hot and cold supply pipes to this sink.
Recommendation: Ensure that backflow preventers are provided on all fixtures using potable water and which have submerged inlets.
Item No.: 17
Site: Galley-Deck 12 Galley
Violation: Walk-in refrigerator #12636 had a variety of hotel pans and bins of ready-to-eat potentially hazardous foods held cold. In reviewing the cooling logs for this area and the production dates on the food containers, it was clear that some of the foods were cooked and cooled, but not entered in the cooling log. Specifically, two hotel pans of a cooked mushroom and vegetable mixture dated today, two hotel pans of cooked mixed vegetables dated today, and two hotel pans of cooked chili con carne dated yesterday were found at temperatures below 41 F and were not entered on the cooling log. Staff later provided a cooling log page from a lower galley listing the chilli con carne cooling.
Recommendation: Ensure that logs documenting cooked, potentially hazardous food cooling temperatures and times from the starting points designated in 7.3.5.2.1 thru the control points at 2 and 6 hours are maintained onboard the vessel for a period of 30 days form the date the food was placed in the cooling process. Ensure that logs documenting cooling of potentially hazardous foods prepared from ingredients at ambient temperatures, with the start time to the time when 5C (41 F) is reached are also maintained for a period of 30 days, beginning with the day of preparation.
Item No.: 20
Site: Galley-Bakery
Violation: There was a piece of equipment that was used to make breadsticks that had a thick felt belt that was difficult to clean. The surfaces of the belt were clean.
Recommendation: Ensure that materials used in the construction of multiuse utensils and food-contact surfaces of equipment are: (1) Durable, corrosion-resistant, and nonabsorbent; (2) Sufficient in weight and thickness to withstand repeated warewashing; (3) Finished to have a smooth, easily cleanable surface; and (4) Resistant to pitting, chipping, crazing, scratching, scoring, distortion, and decomposition.
Item No.: 21
Site: Bar-Mermaids Bar
Violation: There was a gap along the left edge of the technical space under the starboard speedrail.
Recommendation: Ensure that nonfood-contact surfaces are free of unnecessary ledges, projections, and crevices, and designed and constructed to allow easy cleaning and to facilitate maintenance.
Item No.: 21
Site: Bar-Lobby Bar
Violation: In the technical space under the speed rail, there were two pipe supports that were not stainless steel and were corroded at the connection with other metals.
Recommendation: Replace the pipe supports with a material that will not corrode.
Item No.: 22
Site: Galley-Dishwash for Vivaldi Dining Room
Violation: The glasswash machine did not have a data plate.
Recommendation: Ensure that warewashing machines are provided with an easily accessible and readable data plate affixed to the machine by the manufacturer that indicates the machine's design and operating specifications including the: (1) Temperatures required for washing, rinsing, and sanitizing; (2) Pressure required for the fresh water sanitizing rinse; and (3) Conveyor speed for conveyor machines or cycle time for stationary rack machines.
Item No.: 28
Site: Pantry-Housekeeping Pantries
Violation: Each deck pantry had a portable dish trolley of soiled items stored beside the deck-mounted clean dishware storage racks. There were clean bins and utensils stored on the clean racks, but there was no side splash shield protecting the clean rack from the soiled rack trolley.
Recommendation: Ensure that if dirty dish trolleys are going to be stored beside clean racks that there is a physical barrier which separates the shared side of the clean rack.
Item No.: 33
Site: Buffet-Horizon Court Buffet
Violation: Some broken and cracked deck tile were noted along the center area of the buffet along the entry to the cooking pantry.
Recommendation: Ensure that decks, bulkheads, and deckheads in food preparation, warewashing, pantries, and storage areas are constructed and maintained for easy cleaning.
Item No.: 33
Site: Provisions-Dry Stores
Violation: Near the corner at the left of the entrance, there was a gap at the lower edge of the bulkhead.
Recommendation: Repair the lower edge of the bulkhead.
Item No.: 33
Site: Galley-Hot Galley
Violation: There was a loose profile strip on the bulkhead under the grooved grill by the hood cleaning control cabinet.
Recommendation: Re-attach the profile strip.
Item No.: 34
Site: Galley-Deck 6 Starboard Side Grill Section
Violation: There was a steam leak under the bain marie.
Recommendation: Ensure that a plumbing system in a food area is maintained in good repair.
*Inspections scores of 85 or lower are NOT satisfactory
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