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Cruise Ship: Sea Lion Cruise line: Lindblad Expeditions Inspection Date: 07/19/2008 Score: 98
 
This cruise ship inspection report lists the deficiencies found during the inspection. Additional information corresponding to each item number is available in the lastest editions of the CDC VSP Operational Manual.



 
    Cruise Ship's Corrective Action Statement

Item No.: 08
Site: Potable Water-
Violation: For the production and bunkering logs, there was no written documentation of the times of manual testing for the free residual chlorine. The production logs had columns labeled 0000, 0400, 0800, 1200, 1600, 20000. The bunkering logs had columns labeled 1 hour, 2 hour, 3 hour. Per staff, manual recordings do not occur exactly at those designated times. There was a possibility that the monitoring times may exceed the hourly and four hour sampling requirements.
Recommendation: 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-
Violation: For the production and bunkering logs, there was no written documentation of the times of manual testing for the free residual chlorine. The production logs had columns labeled 0000, 0400, 0800, 1200, 1600, 20000. The bunkering logs had columns labeled 1 hour, 2 hour, 3 hour. Per staff, manual recordings do not occur exactly at those designated times. There was a possibility that the monitoring times may exceed the hourly and four hour sampling requirements.
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.
Item No.: 21
Site: Galley-
Violation: The non-food contact surfaces of equipment had gaps, open seams and other difficult to clean features.
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.: 22
Site: Galley-
Violation: There was only a 2 compartment sink in the galley. However, there was a dishwash machine.
Recommendation: Ensure that a sink with at least 3 compartments is provided for manually washing, rinsing, and sanitizing equipment and utensils.
Item No.: 27
Site: Galley-
Violation: The drip pan housings for the grills were heavily soiled.
Recommendation: Ensure that nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment are kept free of an accumulation of dust, dirt, food residue, and other debris.
Item No.: 29
Site: Bar-
Violation: The drain hose for the soda gun drained into the handwash sink.
Recommendation: Ensure that handwashing facilities are used for no other purpose and are accessible at all times.
Item No.: 33
Site: Bar-
Violation: There was exposed, raw wood on the bulkhead under the espresso machine.
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: Other-Dining Room Beverage Station
Violation: There were openings in the bulkhead around the pipe penetrations in the technical compartment.
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: Galley-
Violation: The decks, bulkheads and deckhead in the food preparation and food storage areas had gaps, open seams, exposed piping, uneven panels and other difficult to clean features.
Recommendation: Ensure that decks, bulkheads, and deckheads in food preparation, warewashing, pantries, and storage areas are constructed and maintained for easy cleaning.
Item No.: 34
Site: Galley-
Violation: There was a steady leak on the spray hose at the 2 compartment sink.
Recommendation: Ensure that a plumbing system in a food area is maintained in good repair.
Item No.: 36
Site: Provisions-
Violation: There was not sufficient lighting in the walk-in freezer.
Recommendation: Ensure that the light intensity is at least 110 Lux (10 foot candles) at a distance of 75 centimeters (30 inches) above the deck when in use, in walk-in refrigerator units and dry storage areas, and in other areas and rooms during periods of cleaning.
Item No.: 40
Site: Integrated Pest Management-
Violation: Per staff, pesticides were maintained onboard the vessel. However, there was no inventory of the pesticide.
Recommendation: Ensure that the Integrated Pest Management Plan includes a record of pesticides used. The record shall contain only pesticides currently onboard the vessel and those used in the previous 12 months.
Item No.: 41
Site: Housekeeping-Outbreak Prevention and Response Plan
Violation: The outbreak prevention and response plan did not state that public areas needed to be disinfected and the frequency of disinfection.
Recommendation: Ensure that when the cumulative proportion of cases of gastrointestinal illness among passengers or crew members is 2%, the infection control response includes cleaning and disinfecting all public areas, including handrails and restrooms, on a continuous basis until the proportion decreases to < 2%.
*Inspections scores of 85 or lower are NOT satisfactory

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