FitLife Foods faces lawsuit filed by whistleblower
January 20, 2021 - Tampa-based FitLife Foods has been hit with a lawsuit filed by a former employee who claims the company ignored temperature-control protocols, causing food to spoil. Thomas Kelly’s complaint says he was fired from his post as FitLife’s director of processing improvement in January 2020, about two months after he began expressing concerns about food safety to an operations manager at the firm’s culinary center. FitLife Foods founder and CEO David Osterweil, speaking with the St. Pete Catalyst, called Kelly’s claims “baseless” and said the former employee is concerned only with financial gain. Osterweil also said FitLife had not been served with any papers related to the lawsuit, which was filed Dec. 31 in Hillsborough County Circuit Court.