Carnival Legend Fails Health Inspection

The Carnival Legend was to host the Florida Direct Marketing Associations monthly luncheon on November 16th.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports:

But in a relatively rare slip, Carnival Legend was inspected in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 14 and failed. On a scale of 1 to 100, ships must be graded at least 86 to be considered satisfactory. Carnival Legend received a 71, the second-lowest score of any ship inspected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control since 2004.

Most of the problems noted by inspectors related to food preparation, such as potentially hazardous foods like cream-based puddings that weren't adequately chilled after cooking. A report on the inspection said cooling of foods was not properly monitored, discard date labels were missing from some stored foods and chlorine sanitizing solutions in some galleys and bars were too weak or too strong when tested.

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