ESPN Outside The Lines Reveals Extremely Unsafe Stadium Food

Do you have any idea what the hell is in the food you're eating at a baseball stadium? If you love stadium food and want to keep regarding it highly, then I really suggest that you don't read on any further. ESPN's "Outside The Lines" recently aired a special that revealed the extremely unsanitary and unsafe conditions at popular stadium concessions and restaurants. Getting an inside look at how certain stadium food is prepared really makes you realize how disgusting, gross, and wrong it is. ESPN OTL reviewed health department inspection reports for all 107 stadiums nationwide and found that the majority had multiple critical health violations. These violations included serving raw food, improperly storing/refrigerating food, workers bleeding into food and serving it, bugs and rodents in concessions, and even finding a pus filled band-aid in a pot of clam chowder. It's absolutely disgusting and has caused numerous people to get sick from salmonella poisoning and other forms of food poisoning. For anyone who's a sports fan this is a must read. To give you an example of what OTL found here's what they found at a few popular US stadiums:

• Yankee Stadium- 48% of vendors were in violation of health standards. Five hot dogs registered 91 degrees in a hot-holding unit when they were supposed to be no cooler than 140 (aka raw). Inspectors also had a vendor dump a bottle of Chivas Regal whiskey containing dead fruit flies.
• Madison Square Garden- 61% of vendors were in violation of health standards. At one stand, inspectors found "53 mouse excreta" (38 on top of a metal box underneath the cash registers in the front food-prep/service area and 15 on top of a carbonated-beverage dispensing unit.)
• Sun Life Stadium- 93% of vendors were in violation of health standards. In June 2009, an employee complained anonymously that small insects and other debris were blended into frozen alcoholic beverages at a stand where equipment wasn't being cleaned. When inspectors checked, they issued a critical violation for a buildup of slime inside the frozen drinks machine.

Check out http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=100725/stadiumconcessions for the full report, including an interactive map highlighting different stadiums.