SYSAUDIT cleanup - best practice

 I am looking for the "best practice" in dealing with a SYSAUDIT discrepancy.  In the Security section of the SYSAUDIT, We have a number of SEC-28 errors: (SEC-28) Invalid entries in the PSAUTHITEM table:

These were caused by a developer deleting a menu item.  When the menu item was deleted, there were a number of items associated with this menu that became orphaned.  

I can run a SQL to find and delete these orphaned items from the PSAUTHITEM table.  This is relatively easy, and will clear up the issues in the SYSAUDIT report.  Or, I can ask the developer to delete the menu item from the permission list, and delete the content references.  It will take considerable more effort for the developer to manually delete the menu from the permission list and delete the content references.