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"As much as I enjoy going to a baseball game for the game itself, I have to confess that part of the appeal lies in gorging myself on stadium standards such as the classic ballpark dog and a beer. A recent story from ESPN might have quite a few stadium cuisine enthusiasts rethinking their enthusiasm, however. Reporter Paula   Lavigne examined inspection reports for all 107 stadiums used by the MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL and found that, in more than a quarter of the arenas, more than half of the vendors had committed at least one serious violation of local health standards. In one particularly dramatic example:  &amp;quot;At Tropicana Field -- home of the Tampa Bay Rays -- every one of the stadium&amp;#039;s 47 food and drink outlets inspected incurred a critical violation during inspections within the past year, according to Florida inspection reports. Violations include food residue in a cooler, toxic chemicals stored too close to food preparation areas, &amp;#039;slime&amp;#039; in the ice machines and thermometers not readily visible to measure the temperature of hot foods.&amp;quot; The story notes, too, cases where employees were continually cited for failure to wash their hands or, equally as disturbing, using the same cutting board for prepping raw chicken and then slicing sandwiches without washing the board in between. Mind you, many of the violations any type of restaurant is cited for are far more mundane: failure to keep a supply of paper towels near the kitchen&amp;#039;s hygiene sink or unapproved utensils. In fact, the vast majority of violations are easily corrected and often are, right in front of the health inspector. (You can see health inspection reports for restaurants throughout the country here.) Nonetheless, food poisoning isn&amp;#039;t anything to take lightly. At the least, you&amp;#039;ll end up with a grumbly tummy. At its worst, it can kill you. Who needs that on top of your home team&amp;#039;s losing streak? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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