Catering Safety: The Care and Feeding of Passengers
Flight departments and FBOs must take foodborne illness seriously.

Foodborne illness is a growing concern in the U.S., and one that flight departments and FBOs should take seriously. According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are approximately 48 million cases each year in the U.S., 128,000 of them severe enough to require hospitalization, 3,000 of them fatal. Travel medical services provider MedAire notes that gastrointestinal illness accounts for the largest percentage of calls from its private aviation customers, with 77 percent of them regarding passengers. Those are just the calls they hear about, and the overall impact on general aviation may be even greater as many cases go unreported.

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