PHOENIX – Valley officials are cracking down on certain street vendors after receiving dozens of reports of illnesses linked to a type of taco meat.
The Maricopa County Environmental Services Department (MCESD), which oversees restaurant inspections in metro Phoenix, said Monday it completed 55 food seizures while investigating and addressing 111 complaints in May, June and July.
The agency confiscated over 7,000 pounds of potentially unsafe meat and shut down multiple unlicensed operations during that three-month span.
Unlicensed street vendors selling tacos el pastor blamed for illnesses
The targeted mobile vendors were selling tacos al pastor from temporary stands near sidewalks and in parking lots. The meat in that type of taco is shaved from a vertical rotisserie called a trompo…