Crime

Fired Aramark Worker Said Firm Served Filthy Food in State Prison, Falsified Records

October 23, 2014, 8:12 AM

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Amy McVay (Photo from Detroit Free Press video)

The troubling relationship the state prison system has with Aramark Correctional Services -- the food caterer -- continued to rear its ugly head.

The latest: Paul Egan of the Detroit Free Press writes that a fired Aramark prison food worker, Amy McVay, 25, filed a whistle-blower complaint Wednesday with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. She alleges she was fired for complaining about falsified records and kitchen practices that endangered health and food safety, the Freep writes.

McVay  was hired Dec. 3 by Aramark Correctional Services and worked at the Gus Harrison Correctional Facility in Adrian until she was fired Oct. 14, the Free Press reports. The reason: insubordination.

The Freep reports:

But in a Tuesday interview with the Free Press and in the complaint filed with OSHA through her Detroit attorneys, McVay alleges she was harassed and retaliated against for complaining about a lack of temperature monitoring in cooking; the serving of raw or undercooked meat; falsified records related to dishwater temperature and cleaning solution quality; the serving of meat that had been dropped on the floor; changing the dates on stored leftover food so it could be served after its throw-away date; suspected inflating of the count of meals served — part of the basis for which Aramark is paid by the state — among other issues.

Aramark has faced seriously issues ever since the state contracted with the food company late last year. There have been issues of food shortages, sanitation problems and workers smuggling drugs into the prisons and having sex with inmates.


Read more:  Detroit Free Press


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