JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An Indian restaurant in Jacksonville was shut down for a few hours because of roaches.
India's Restaurant on Baymeadows Road has since reopened.
The restaurant was shut down last week with five high-priority violations.
An inspector said roaches were the problem, which the restaurant was able to remedy in just hours.
The inspector found fewer than 10 live roaches in the kitchen. One was under the hand-washing sink. Most were under the triple sink in the baseboard area. The inspector also found that the dishwasher's sanitizing solution was not strong enough to clean the dishes.
Thursday morning, News4Jax asked former state health inspector Jessica Tyree, who is now a consultant, which violation people should be most concerned about. She said it isn't roaches, but personal cleanliness that should be the No. 1 safety concern.
"Personal hygiene, hand-washing," Tyree said. "Of all the food-borne illness outbreaks in the country, things happen. It always comes back to people not washing their hands properly or when they're not supposed to. Roaches are not good but make sure that they're washing their hands. And that's something, with open kitchens, you can see and keep an eye on."
The closure last week was the first for India's Restaurant.
Reports on the state website date back to June 2015. The restaurant met inspection standards in all prior inspections except one in that time period, and the violation then was not because of roaches.