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Story By: Susan Davies
Source: KOAA
Published Tue Aug 05, 2008, 09:05 PM MDT
Updated Tue Aug 05, 2008, 09:43 PM MDT
El Paso County food inspectors spent last week at the Broadmoor. Their job was to make sure on-site vendors and caterers were properly permitted and following state health regulations.
But in their zeal to keep hundreds of thousands of visitors safe and healthy, they went a bit too far and now the health department is apologizing.
It seems on-site vendors complained that food was being sold by nearby neighbors off-site. Food inspectors investigated and found a fund-raising group selling sodas, snacks and ice-cream bars. State law requires that all dairy products sold at events be permitted. Inspectors asked the group to stop selling the ice-cream and they complied.
The inspectors then shut down a child's lemonade stand located in the family's driveway. Rick Miklich of the county's Environmental Health Division says it was bad judgement and a poor allocation of resources to harass the two off-site sellers.
He has sent a letter of apology to the group selling the ice-cream and is seeking the lemonade stand vendors - hoping to send them the same letter.
