Prantlâs Bakery Squirrel Hill location temporarily shut down by health department
Health inspectors said bakery opened new location without a permit Share Updated: 5:23 PM EDT May 5, 2021
Prantlâs Bakery Squirrel Hill location temporarily shut down by health department
Health inspectors said bakery opened new location without a permit Share Updated: 5:23 PM EDT May 5, 2021
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Show Transcript SHANNON: ALL NEW ON 4. THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT SAYS IT WAS FORCED TO TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN PRANTLâS BAKERY IN PITTSBURGHâS SQUIRREL HILL NEIGHBORHOOD. HEALTH INSPECTORS SAY THE BAKERY OPENED A NEW LOCATION WITHOUT A PERMIT AND DIDNâT REQUEST A PRE-OPERATIONAL INSPECTION. PRANTLâS WAS ALSO CITED FOR HOLDING FOOD AT UNSAFE TEMPERATURES, NOT SANITIZING FOOD CONTACT SURFACES, AND A LACK OF HOT WATER AND HAND WASHING SINKS. THE OWNER TELLS PITTSBURGHâS ACTION NEWS 4 THE NEW STORY WAS THAT NEW STORE
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The Allegheny County Health Department has shut down and cited Prantl’s Bakery for opening a new location in Squirrel Hill without a health permit, department records show.
The bakery’s new location on Forbes Avenue was shut down by health inspectors April 28 for operating with a health permit, failing to request a pre-operational inspection and doing construction prior to plan approval.
Inspectors also noted other health violations: improper cold holding of food, not having a food probe thermometer, failing to sanitize surfaces that come into contact with food, not having hot water throughout the whole building and not having hand-washing sinks in the food-handling areas.
The Allegheny County Health Department on Wednesday reported its second-lowest covid-19 case total in the past month.
The county added 158 new cases Wednesday. Only the 94 cases reported April 26 was lower. It’s also the second-lowest total dating back to March 15, when 124 were reported. The county’s coronavirus case total grew to 98,355.
Of Allegheny County’s latest cases, 119 are confirmed and 39 are probable, with cases ranging from 5 months to 96 years and a median age of 29.
Westmoreland County, on the other hand, added 143 cases, its first triple-digit day in the past five days. Westmoreland’s total climbed to 33,058. State data released Wednesday showed 149 confirmed cases and negative six probable cases. The higher number for Westmoreland, which had been averaging 91 cases a day over the past week, could be explained by data submissions from one lab.
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BRADDOCK, Pennsylvania Exactly two years ago, U.S. Steel Corporation announced that the company would turn its Mon Valley operations into a key source of lightweight steel for the automotive industry.
At the time, local leaders and company officials called the investment “transformational.” Statue of Joe Magarac, a folktale steelworker who could bend steel with his bare hands, in front of the 148-year-old Edgar Thomson Works. (Shannon Venditti / Washington Examiner)
It involved a whopping $1.5 billion upgrade to its Mon Valley Works. This included an upgrade of the Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, the Irvin Plant in West Mifflin, and Clairton Coke Works, with technology and improvements that would have provided cleaner air for all three communities where the plants are located, as well as good-paying jobs that would have provided prosperity for the region for decades.