The FDA has posted to its website a letter to LSG Sky Chefs, a caterer that makes more than 400 million airline meals a year. The FDA says that it found some food safety violations during a May inspection of one of Sky Chefs' seafood processing facilities. Specifically:
Your Tilapia fillets and shrimp meals are adulterated, in that they have been prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have been rendered injurious to health.
The Sky Chefs say they took steps to correct the problems back in May, which at any rate involved retail--not airline--food. (That makes it OK to skimp on safety measures?)
Though it sounds like diners weren't really at risk this time, it does make us think twice about ordering the fish. Surely Leslie Nielsen can't save every food poisoned passenger!
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