Biggest Threat to Your Safety While Traveling by Commercial Flight? The Food
June 29th, 2010What happened to: FDA Warning Letter to LSG SkyChefs (World’s Second Largest Provider of Airline Catering Services) from back in January?
Via: CBS:
Many Americans fear for their safety while flying, scared of the possibility of something going wrong with the plane’s maintenance.
It turns out, however, the biggest safety issue you face while flying could be the food served by the airlines.
More than half a billion meals are made by some of the largest airline food kitchens in the United States. A recent analysis by some of Food and Drug Administration inspection records found that food preparation in some of these kitchens is a recipe for disaster.
Violations include roaches, mice, unsanitary conditions and no place for employees to wash their hands.
“Volume always leads to problems,” said Brian Buckley of the Institute of Culinary Education. “Obviously there’s not a lot of accountability.”
Food preparation in all three area airports were cited for violations, including LSG Sky Chef, for food that was subject to contamination, employees not washing hands thoroughly, touching food surfaces with bare hands and failure to clean and sanitize to protect food from contamination.
