Posted on 08/10/2013 4:11:29 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Maggots found in Atlanta airport sandwich, food inspections enhanced
ATLANTA — Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport officials tell Channel 2 Action News they are enhancing the way they inspect restaurants inside the airport after a man showed Channel 2 Action News a sandwich he purchased from an airport vendor had maggots.
The passenger told Channel 2's Amy Napier Viteri he bought a sandwich at an airport restaurant Wednesday morning. When he opened it he said he was stunned to find maggots on it.
Joel Woloshuk says he got out his phone and recorded video of the bugs crawling on his focaccia sandwich after boarding a flight to Miami for work Wednesday morning.
The video shows maggots crawling in and on the food he bought at the Café Intermezzo franchise location inside Terminal B at Hartsfield-Jackson.
"What I thought was parmesan and the parmesan began to move," Woloshuk told Viteri.
Woloshuk kept the sandwich and showed Channel 2 Action News the maggots when he got back to Atlanta Wednesday night.
He said he called the restaurant and asked to meet with a manager but no one was available that night.
"This is not wilted tomato; this isn't a moldy piece of bread. These are maggots," Woloshuk said.
Viteri reached out to Café Intermezzo and spoke with its president by phone, who said they truly regret the isolated incident occurred.
In a statement he said the problem "could not have been generated on our premises."
He said the problem started at its bread supplier with whom it has cut ties.
"All products from the vendor were removed. Not a single crumb or slice of bread from the vendor remains in the facility," the statement said.
That supplier told Viteri by phone it doesn't believe the problem started in its facility, which a Department of Agriculture inspector visited late last week.
The bakery said at this point it's still supplying other airport vendors. In a statement, the airport told Channel 2 Action News it's "awaiting results of the investigation to determine further action."
Woloshuk said a restaurant manager offered him a refund, which he declined. He said he just wants to be sure this won't happen to anyone else.
"My intent is my fellow traveler. I'm in this airport weekly and it makes me pretty angry," Woloshuk said.
Cafe Intermezzo and airport officials told Viteri they take food safety and cleanliness very seriously.
The Department of Aviation does its own inspections of concessions monthly and an airport spokesperson told Viteri starting Friday, it's giving managers of every airport restaurant ultra violet inspection lights so they can independently inspect food shipments.
The Department of Aviation will also start touring food suppliers in the metro area and report any violations to the corresponding authority.
The Clayton County Board of Health told Viteri Tuesday it found no citable violation at the franchise location when they inspected it Friday based on the complaint.
I’ve been standing in line at a place in the St Louis airport. Heard the guy say “there’s mold on this meat” as he put it on a sandwich and served it to someone.
It is a little known fact that up to 40% of the employees at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport are poorly disguised Vogons.
Ever notice there are basically no white people working in the Atlanta airport.
Did you leave immediately? If I found maggots on my sandwich they’d be calling the cops because I would be FREAKING OUT BIG TIME!
Oh yeah the entire line of about 30 people walked away.
Good to know, thanks for your reply!
We all HOPE that is how you know.
I hear they are better deep fried and not still moving yuk...
Are you gonna eat that?
I hadn’t planned on it.
Do you mind?... Oh, that’s nice and ripe... Jake says
thank you.
I don’t believe the line about the “Bread Supplier.” I’ve seen moldy bread, I’ve seen maggoty meat, but I’ve never seen maggoty bread. I’m not saying it couldn’t happen but it doesn’t seem very likely.
A garbage can with maggots smells but don’t think a few on a sanwich would...its the wiggling that warns you something is living in your sandwich...but they are using maggots, specially raised to debrid certain types of lesions that don’t heal, like with a diabetic and leg and foot lesions that won’t heal...maggots only eat dead skin and can help the healing process’s of some types of lesions....bandage get changed ever other day as when they are put on with a sterile dressing they are so small, like thread, but get fat quite quick on feeding on dead flesh....
fta...The Department of Aviation does its own inspections of concessions monthly ...
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When did the US get a Department of Aviation??? More big government growth that has been kept quiet?
OOPS its not just skin but dead flesh...sorry for the error
The UN says to alleviate world hunger, we all should supplement our diet with insects.
Maggots must be good, Euell Gibbons eats them all the time....whoops, I mean, used to eat them all the time. They are great with wild hickory nuts.
Actually, no. It’s just a dreadful place. I recall one time when a connection was canceled (Delta?) I had to wait on a long line and eventually got an airline chit for a hotel room and transportation. All the people working the arrangements and transportation seemed to be cheerful, efficient and black. Not a big deal to me.
I have had maggots in mt trash cans in the summer and they reek to high heaven
You could say the same thing about Kennedy in NY .
There is an Atlanta Department of Aviation. http://www.atlantaga.gov/index.aspx?page=184
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