Food Basics Store #859
3018 Petawawa Blvd, Petawawa ON K8H 1X9 · Supermarket
Inspection summary
Food Basics Store #859 has been inspected 3 times by Renfrew County and District Health Unit since January 9, 2025. The most recent inspection, on April 15, 2026, recorded 2 infractions.
None of the 3 inspections on record were free of infractions. In the past 12 months there were 2 inspections with 3 infractions recorded. The higher-risk findings here relate to: Cleaning and sanitizing.
What these findings mean
Health authorities word their violations differently, so we group them by what they mean for food safety. Higher-risk findings are the ones inspectors treat as critical, because they can directly make someone sick.
Cleaning and sanitizingHigher risk
Anything that touches food, such as cutting boards, dishes and utensils, must be washed, rinsed and sanitized. Inspectors check dishwasher temperatures, sanitizer strength and how wiping cloths are stored. Poor sanitizing lets bacteria survive from one use to the next.
Recorded 3 times across 2 separate inspections, most recently on April 15, 2026. For example:
Manual dishwashing provides clean wash water, proper rinse, and sanitizing solution
Food safety training and certificationLower risk
Most jurisdictions require a certified food handler or manager on site, and some require allergen or food-worker training. These findings mean the paperwork or the trained person was missing at the time. They do not by themselves mean food was handled unsafely.
Recorded 2 times on January 9, 2025. For example:
Food handlers in the food premise wash their hands as often as necessary to prevent the contamination of food or food areas
Other findingsLower risk
Findings that do not fit the categories above, such as follow-ups that confirm an earlier violation was corrected, or requirements specific to this type of facility.
Recorded once on January 9, 2025. For example:
General maintenance and sanitation is satisfactory where food is processed, prepared, packaged, served, transported, manufactured, handled, sold, or offered for sale.
About this data
These results come from Renfrew County and District Health Unit, which inspects food premises and other public facilities in this area. We republish the authority's public disclosure data and refresh it regularly; the official record is the final word.
3 inspections
- Required
2 infractions
- Manual dishwashing provides clean wash water, proper rinse, and sanitizing solution
- Quaternary ammonium compound solution must be a minimum 200 parts per million at 24°C or greater for at least 45 seconds.
- Food contact surfaces washed, rinsed, and sanitized as often as necessary to maintain surfaces in a sanitary condition
- Ensure sanitizer is available and/or of sufficient concentration to sanitize as often as necessary to maintain food contact surfaces in a sanitary condition
- Manual dishwashing provides clean wash water, proper rinse, and sanitizing solution
- Required
1 infraction
- Equipment, utensils and multi-service articles are of sound and tight construction, in good repair, can be readily cleaned and sanitized, and suitable for their intended purpose
- Ensure all the equipment, utensils and multi-service articles are of such form and material that they can be readily cleaned and sanitized.
- Equipment, utensils and multi-service articles are of sound and tight construction, in good repair, can be readily cleaned and sanitized, and suitable for their intended purpose
- Required
3 infractions
- Food handlers in the food premise wash their hands as often as necessary to prevent the contamination of food or food areas
- Food handlers must wash hands as often as necessary to prevent the contamination of food or food areas.
- General maintenance and sanitation is satisfactory where food is processed, prepared, packaged, served, transported, manufactured, handled, sold, or offered for sale.
- Maintain storage areas in a clean and sanitary manner
- Adequate number of handwashing stations, situated for convenient access by food handlers with required supplies
- Ensure handwashing stations are maintained for use.
- Ensure handwashing stations conveniently accessible by food handlers
- Food handlers in the food premise wash their hands as often as necessary to prevent the contamination of food or food areas