If you’re in Denver Airport anytime soon and find yourself in need of a nosh, make sure to stick with prepackaged food. FDA inspectors found live and dead roaches and Listeria at the Denver kitchen. Don’t worry, LSG Sky Chefs, a company that prepares food for major airlines, claims that it’s now clean. Just like that.. Poof!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34706032/ns/health-food_safety/
“According to an FDA letter to the company, inspectors who examined the Denver facility found live and dead roaches “too numerous to count” in several areas of the kitchen, including at least 40 live insects in the silverware station.
The FDA said inspectors saw employees touching food with bare hands or while wearing unwashed gloves. They also noted problems with the building, including water dripping from the ceiling into utensil-cleaning areas and holes in walls that could house insects or vermin.”
Hard to believe that his is a major U.S. airport because the description above leads one to believe the description above is for a chicken coop in the middle of Cambodia circa 1946.
Fortunately, no one reported becoming ill after eating this food and LSG surprisingly took the reins to clean up the swamp kitchen. They fired the general manager and head chef and, after chemical treatments failed to kill the existing Listeria in the kitchen floor drain, they replaced the pipes and drain.
Whether it’s their bottom line or their willingness to correct a serious oversight, LSG’s practices post-FDA inspections should be the standard, not the anomaly when it comes to a food company’s social responsibility.