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Cruise Ship: Carnival Elation Cruise Line: Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. Inspection Date: 02/03/2011 Inspection Score: 95
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.: 40
Site: Integrated Pest Management-
Violation: The integrated pest management plan indicated that night inspections should be conducted periodically. There were several locations without any night time inspections recorded in December 2010 and January 2011. This included Sun Deck, Romeo & Juliet, and Jekyll & Hyde bars, petty officer mess and staff mess.
Recommendation: Ensure that night inspections are conducted as required by the integrated pest management plan.
Item No.: 10
Site: Recreational Water Facilities-Crew Pool
Violation: There was only one depth marker on the inside of one side of the pool. This depth marker could not be seen from all areas of the pool deck.
Recommendation: Ensure that the depth of each pool is prominently displayed so that it can be seen from the deck and in the pool. Ensure that depth markers are labeled in feet or meters, or both. Additionally, ensure that depth markers are installed for every 1 m (3 feet) in change of depth.
Item No.: 33
Site: Pantry-Deck 5 Forward
Violation: In the pantry by staircase 230, the flange was loose around the deckhead penetration above the left end of the counter. This was corrected.
Recommendation: Ensure that decks, bulkheads, and deckheads in food preparation, warewashing, pantries, and storage areas are constructed and maintained for easy cleaning.
Item No.: 08
Site: Potable Water-Tanks
Violation: Fresh water (potable water) tank #3 was recently inspected and some touch-up painting was conducted following the inspection. The records indicated that the tank was allowed to dry from 1130 to 1430 before the surfaces were sanitized. The manufacturer's guidelines indicate a minimum of 5 hours drying time at 35F and longer at lower temperatures. The temperature was not documented in the records.
Recommendation: Ensure that interior coatings on potable water tanks are approved for potable water contact, and all manufacturer's recommendations for application, drying, or curing are followed. Ensure written documentation for the coating used and recommendations followed are available for review during inspections.
Item No.: 30
Site: Bar-Tiffany Bar
Violation: There was no "wash hands often" sign at the handwash station. This was corrected.
Recommendation: Ensure that a sign stating "WASH HANDS OFTEN" in a language that the food employees understand is posted over handwashing sinks.
Item No.: 39
Site: Preparation Room-
Violation: There was one small black fly near the potato peeler.
Recommendation: Ensure that the presence of insects, rodents, and other pests is effectively controlled to minimize their presence in the food storage, preparation, service areas, warewashing, and utensil storage areas aboard a vessel.
Item No.: 21
Site: Galley-Buffet Pantry
Violation: The pipe penetration on the right side of the technical compartment for the undercounter refrigeration unit #026 was not sealed. A piece of duct tape was used to cover the opening around the penetration.
Recommendation: Ensure that nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment that are exposed to splash, spillage, or other food soiling or that require frequent cleaning are constructed of a corrosion-resistant, nonabsorbent, and smooth material.
Item No.: 33
Site: Galley-Forward - Imagination Warewash
Violation: There was a gap where the ventilation trunk joined the deckhead above the flight-type warewash machine. This was corrected.
Recommendation: Ensure that decks, bulkheads, and deckheads in food preparation, warewashing, pantries, and storage areas are constructed and maintained for easy cleaning.
Item No.: 27
Site: Galley-Appetizer Pantry
Violation: The technical compartment for the refrigeration unit #083.83XI was soiled in all areas with a sticky, brown substance. This was corrected.
Recommendation: Ensure that nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment are kept free of an accumulation of dust, dirt, food residue, and other debris.
Item No.: 21
Site: Galley-Aft Preparation Area
Violation: The door gaskets of the hot holding units to the left of the Chef's Box No.1 were cracked and worn. This was corrected.
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.: 33
Site: Galley-Sauce and Soup Station
Violation: There were cracked deck tiles in this area.
Recommendation: Ensure that decks, bulkheads, and deckheads in food preparation, warewashing, pantries, and storage areas are constructed and maintained for easy cleaning.
Item No.: 27
Site: Buffet-Tiffany Bar Beverage Station
Violation: The counter top was soiled below the starboard aft and port aft coffee machines.
Recommendation: Ensure that nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment are kept free of an accumulation of dust, dirt, food residue, and other debris.
Item No.: 21
Site: Buffet-Tiffany Bar Port Aft Beverage Station
Violation: The door gasket of the juice machine was chipped and worn.
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: Buffet-Pantry Forward Food Service Line
Violation: The left rotisserie chicken oven was dripping cooking juice from underneath the back of the unit. This oven was in use at the time of the inspection.
Recommendation: Ensure that the rotisserie oven is sealed so that juices from cooking chicken do not enter the housing of the oven.
Item No.: 33
Site: Provisions-Beer and Soda Cooler
Violation: White tape was used to cover a seam between two adjacent deckhead panels near the cooling unit. This tape was soiled.
Recommendation: Ensure that decks, bulkheads, and deckheads in food preparation, warewashing, pantries, and storage areas are constructed and maintained for easy cleaning. Ensure that decks, bulkheads, deckheads, and attached equipment in food preparation, warewashing, pantries, and storage areas, are cleaned as often as necessary.
Item No.: 12
Site: Galley-Center
Violation: An engineer reached into the crushed ice side of the lower compartment ice machine with his bare hand. Staff stated this crushed ice was used for display purposes only, but there was no divider between the crushed and cubed ice. The cubed ice was used for ice dispensers and consumption by passengers. No immediate action was taken by the staff until the end of the inspection, after notification by the inspectors.
Recommendation: Ensure that food employees do not contact exposed, ready-to-eat food with their bare hands and use suitable utensils such as deli tissue, spatulas, tongs, single-use gloves, or dispensing equipment.
Item No.: 27
Site: Galley-Buffet Pantry
Violation: In the technical compartment for undercounter refrigeration unit #026, the piece of duct tape used to close the pipe penetration on the right side of the compartment was soiled.
Recommendation: Ensure that nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment are kept free of an accumulation of dust, dirt, food residue, and other debris.
*Inspections scores of 85 or lower are NOT satisfactory
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