Dive Summary:

• The Washington State Board of Health has revoked the license of the Seattle-based tofu company Chu Minh Corp after the it repeatedly failed inspections.
• There is also a $19,000 dollar civil fine pending as the company decides whether to appeal the ruling.
• This is not the first time Chu Minh has had problems with inspections, having been warned by the FDA and even shut down multiple times in the past ten years.

From the article:

In August of last year, FDA sent a warning letter to the company following an inspection during which the agency noted 16 different types of significant violations. Investigators noticed several sanitation problems, including pigeons sitting on exposed vats of soaking soybeans outside the facility, an employee picking his nose before handling ready-to-eat tofu, rodents (live and dead) and rodent feces in the processing facility and cracks in equipment used to process foods. ...