Applesauce and Injection Fluid

According to this article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune , in a ruling made public on Wednesday, a judge upheld a citation by the Minnesota Department of Health that fined a Minnesota funeral home $5000 for, among other things, storing crates of applesauce in the funeral home’s preparation room.

Again, according to the newspaper, a routine inspection in September 2017 found the applesauce in crates stacked four high and three deep in five rows in the same room where hazardous chemicals are used to embalm bodies.  The article states that under Minnesota law, embalming rooms are not to be used for other purposes, including storing food items.  The applesauce also violated rules regarding blood-borne pathogens set by OSHA.  The crates are believed to have been in the room for a year.

Corrective orders were also issued to the funeral home by the Minnesota Department of Health for many paperwork items such as authorization to embalm forms.

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