Denver health inspectors sometimes pour bleach on food when a vendor's operation is deemed unsafe. Find out why.

Denver Health inspectors took CBS Colorado through a food truck inspection this week to show how they enforce safety rules after video of bleach being poured on a street vendor's food sparked backlash.

Inspectors with the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment say they have been monitoring the vendor known as Tacolorado for several weeks. According to the department, the operation repeatedly served food without a business license, stored meat at unsafe temperatures and used propane cooking equipment in ways that posed fire hazards.

DDPHE says its investigators communicated entirely in Spanish with the vendor's employees and provided bilingual education materials , safety guidance and issued cease-and-desist orders. The department says it also emailed and mailed Spanish-lang