FILE: Sleeping Beauty Castle sits at the end of Halloween decorations on Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, September 3, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

A Disneyland establishment closed on July 29 because of a major food safety violation: a rodent infestation. 

The affected location was a retail shop, not a restaurant, the Orange County Register reported.    Inspectors found rodent droppings at the shop, identified only as Disneyland Guide 2, in a storage room, inside merchandise cardboard trays and in a sales area. The inspection also uncovered “debris and dead insects inside the candy display units on the front sales counter,” a report from the Orange County Health Care Agency states. 

The inspector immediately closed the facility, instructing Disneyland employees to “remove all prepacked food items, including case lot beverages, with the exception of the glass door cooler that was sealed off at the time of this inspection.” The inspector also required Disneyland to seal several potential entry points for vermin before it could reopen. 

Several other Disneyland restaurants were also inspected in July and early August, including the Blue Bayou, Red Rose Taverne, Stage Door Cafe and River Belle Terrace. These restaurants all passed their inspections, without the presence of vermin. 

The shop remained closed until August 1, after a final entry point was sealed to the satisfaction of the inspectors. It was inspected again on August 8 to see if the vermin issue had persisted, and this time, the facility passed. 

“No rodent activity was observed this date,” the August 8 report states. “Continue to maintain the facility free of vermin.”

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Fiona Lee is the deputy managing editor at SFGATE. Prior to joining the SFGATE team, she was the interim editor in chief at The Bold Italic and managing editor for the data wire at Hoodline. She has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 8 years. Email: fiona.lee@sfgate.com