{"id":17449,"date":"2026-08-28T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/17449\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:46:08","slug":"salem-city-health-district-critical-food-safety-violations-found-at-chinese-restaurant-salem-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/17449\/","title":{"rendered":"Salem City Health District: \u2018Critical food safety violations\u2019 found at Chinese restaurant | Salem News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Sunny'sChineseRestaurant\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a90891bc7e78.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SALEM &#8211; The Salem City Health District has confirmed that \u201ccritical food safety violations\u201d were found during a routine health inspection of Sunny\u2019s Chinese Restaurant in Salem.<\/p>\n<p>During the August 24 inspection, the health district found food was being kept at \u201cimproper\u201d temperatures; the health district also found issues with the restaurant\u2019s preparation practices.<\/p>\n<p>In a posted notice on the restaurant\u2019s door, the health district stated that it must remain closed until the health department determines it is following the proper food safety measures and has corrected the violations.<\/p>\n<p>The Salem City Health District stated in a Friday release that it will continue working to uphold their responsibility to ensure the health and safety of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoutine food safety inspections are an essential part of ensuring that food service establishments are following proper food handling, storage, and preparation practices,\u201d the health district stated.<\/p>\n<p>They also noted plans to continue monitoring the Chinese restaurant as it works through the compliance process.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED COVERAGE:<\/p>\n<p>Salem Chinese restaurant temporarily closed by city health district<\/p>\n<p>Download the WFMJ app for your\u00a0Apple\u00a0or\u00a0Android\u00a0smartphone or tablet to get our push alerts as news happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALEM &#8211; The Salem City Health District has confirmed that \u201ccritical food safety violations\u201d were found during a routine health inspection of Sunny\u2019s Chinese Restaurant in Salem. During the August 24 inspection, the health district found food was being kept at \u201cimproper\u201d temperatures; the health district also found issues with the restaurant\u2019s preparation practices. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[85,86,15141,8093,1940,15142],"class_list":["post-17449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chinese-restaurants","tag-chinese-restaurant","tag-chinese-restaurants","tag-food-safety-violation","tag-health-inspection","tag-restaurant-closure","tag-salem-city-health-district"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dnc\/117175092780177398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}