Moving targets complicate food safety inspections across Colorado

DENVER — The viral video of a public health inspector in Denver pouring bleach into a vendor’s street food to shut the business down got people riled up this week. The video of it made national news, landing on TMZ with outrage before the full story behind it, and the practice was known.

The taco vendor, Tacos Tacolorado, has been operating without a license, ignoring shutdown orders over unsafe food, in Denver, Jefferson County, El Paso County and Aurora, but finding the locations for the inspections is not so easy when it’s a moving target, without any registered information.

“We’ve been able to find a lot of places on Facebook or Instagram, or their TikTok,” said Kirstin McEachran with the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment (DDPHE)…

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