Consumer Alert Issued For Pittsburgh Grocery Store

PITTSBURGH, PA - The Allegheny County Health Department has issued a consumer alert for the Desi Market on Brownsville Road in Carrick after an inspection turned up signs of a significant roach infestation.

All stages of roach development were found throughout the store's meat department, in the unsealed grain storage area and the non-refrigerated produce shelving on glue boards. Live roaches were found under the meat department cutting boards, butcher blocks, inside an unused band saw and under and inside the meat display coolers.

Live roaches also were found on glue boards between shelving units containing raw produce, with roaches also turning up between bags of grains. Roach waste was covering multiple surfaces, cutting boards, the crack in the butcher blocks, along the edges of the produce shelves and on grain storage shelves.

The inspection also turned up fish from unknown sources being sold, as well as saws and cutting boards soiled with raw meat debris.

The market remains open. You can read the entire inspection report by clicking on the link.