AHN News Staff

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – A survey by sports cable channel ESPN identified the Air Canada Center and Rogers Center in Toronto as among the cleanest sports arena in Canada in terms of food safety. The two are among the 100 sports venues across North America where Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League and National Football League hold their tournaments.

ESPN based its rankings on routine inspections and scores after the sports channel listed vendors’ violation of health standards.

Air Canada Center and Rogers Center both logged zero percent vendors’ violations. Air Canada is the home of the Maple Leafs and Raptors, while Rogers Center is home to the Blue Jays.

Outside Canada, U.S. sports arenas that scored high in the ESPN survey include the United Center, the U.S. Cellular Field, Wrigley Field, Gillette Stadium and the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. On the extreme end, vendors at Tropicana Field were considered the worst offenders of food safety standards.

Tropicana’s Canadian counterpart is the Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alberta. ESPN discovered that 25 percent of food booths at Rexall Place registered one or more violations of critical food safety standards in the last two years. The ESPN team found ground beef and cheese for pizza stored at wrong temperatures, and uncooked pizza left at room temperatures. There were also no sanitizer bottles or soaps for employees’ use.

Nyall Hislop of the Alberta Health Services explained the violations to the restaurants and kiosks being closed when the ESPN inspectors came.

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