An East Village restaurant was closed this week after a Long Beach health inspector found 30 dead cockroaches on the premises and an unlabeled toxic chemical, among other code violations.

On Tuesday, an inspector from the Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Environmental Health visited The Peppercorner, 601 E. Broadway Ave., where they also found seven live nymph brown-banded cockroaches in a cabinet at the restaurant’s service counter, according to an inspection report.

Another cockroach was discovered crawling across a cutting board used to slice bread. The dead cockroaches were on kitchen and locker room floors.

Other problems the inspector observed included slime buildup inside the facility’s ice machine, dried food debris on a meat slicer and an unlabeled spray bottle of yellow liquid at a washing station. State regulations require all poisonous substances, detergents, bleaches and cleaning compounds to be stored separate from food, utensils, packing material and food-contact surfaces.

The restaurant remained closed Wednesday, according to Keith Allen, Bureau of Environmental Health food facility inspection program supervisor.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been edited to correct the day the inspector visited The Peppercorner.

Contact Eric Bradley at 562-499-1254.