Uber-convenient online grocery delivery services such as Amazon Fresh have increased exponentially in 2020.
Amazon Fresh has grown so fast in fact, that basic food safety standards are being abused at an alarmingly fast clip.
The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated this situation.
To make matters worse, regulatory agencies such as the Texas Department of State Health Services as well as county and local health departments can’t keep up with the industry’s innovation.
Amazon Fresh food warehouses are simply not being inspected at the frequency required by the Texas Food Establishment Rules and the FDA Food Code.
Several North Texas Amazon Fresh customers have reached out to TexasPHS for help. Our readers have sent us numerous pictures of critical health hazards associated with Amazon Fresh deliveries – raw eggs stored on top of freshly cut fruit, washed and ready-to-eat salad stored below raw meats, broken eggs oozing onto fresh cantaloupe.
This is unacceptable and has got to change immediately, Amazon.
Especially as Bezos seeks to hire an additional 100,000 workers in the U.S. to meet demand.
In the sprawling Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, many of the Amazon Fresh deliveries originate from an Amazon Prime Now LLC food warehouse located at 6627 Maple Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75235
TexasPHS filed an open records request with the City of Dallas to obtain food safety inspection reports for this warehouse.
TexasPHS discovered that this particular Amazon Fresh facility was last inspected on October 7, 2018. Here is the report:
As millions of Texans turn to Amazon Fresh during the coronavirus pandemic – proper personal hygiene, adequate sanitation, protection from cross contamination during storage and delivery, proper cold holding temperatures, and a highly trained food worker staff should be front and center on the company’s mind.
Texas deserves better.
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Dear Amazon: please feel free to hire Texas Public Health Solutions LLC as your exclusive food safety consultant. We will protect good, hard-working Texans. We will ensure raw food staples are delivered in a manner fit for Häagen-Dazs ice cream bar royalty.
Dear City of Dallas: if you would like to supplement your over-stretched health department, feel free to contact the food safety professionals at Texas Public Health Solutions LLC. We will ensure the city’s roughly 6,000 licensed food establishments get inspected on a more frequent basis.
TEXAS PUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS 
I always wondered who inspected companies like Amazon Fresh, Door Dash and Uber Eats.
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Thank you for your message, Juana. Although these companies and services are playing an important role in the current state of affairs, they should be inspected by licensed health professionals. The delivery aspect of a food business is currently exempt from inspection in most jurisdictions.
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