What do you do when a restaurant is found to be the site of a potential meth lab? Taco Bell will first have an outside company that does specialized cleanups remove any traces of hazardous chemicals from the building. After that, the local health department will have to perform its own inspection before the restaurant is allowed to re-open to the public.
How contaminated a building is by a meth lab depends on how long manufacturing had been going on, and how much of various components were in the building. The chemicals used in drug manufacture can stick around in building materials like floor and ceiling tiles. Police are trying to figure out how long the men could have been set up in the utility room, and how much meth, if any, they could have made.
Police don’t think that customers or employees at this Taco Bell were ever in danger, but are investigating the situation. The health department will not allow the restaurant to reopen unless they’re sure that customers and employees will be safe and that nothing is contaminated.
The two men were arrested and charged with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. One of them (police won’t identify which man) was an employee of the restaurant, and has been fired.
Health officials: No timeline on when Taco Bell will reopen after possible meth lab found [KWWL]
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
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