The Safeway on Rhode Island Ave. NE reopened late Thursday, after a follow-up health department inspection deemed the store in compliance and all issues related to its vermin infestation corrected. The store had been temporarily shuttered on Wednesday evening after a routine inspection discovered evidence of rodents.

For those of you curious about the specifics of the vermin issue that led the Department of Health to close the store, notes on the inspection report, which WTTG/FOX5 kindly uploaded to its web site, provide some insight. Don’t read the following paragraph if you’re easily grossed out, though:

“Crumbs and rodent droppings found on lower shelf where a bag of rice cakes was eaten into. Rodent droppings observed in the bakery in a corner next to the walk-in refrigerator. Also droppings observed next to the Carvel freezer, throughout the produce walk-in refrigerator, and along the walls in the rear storage area floor. A strong odor of mouse or rat urine was detected in the rear storage area along the floor. The tail of a mouse was protruding from under one of the racks.”

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