{"id":978014,"date":"2026-08-03T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/978014\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:38:15","slug":"colorado-pharmacy-board-sues-denver-restaurant-for-selling-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/978014\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado pharmacy board sues Denver restaurant for selling antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Colorado State Board of Pharmacy<\/a> is suing a restaurant and bakery in Denver\u2019s Gateway neighborhood\u00a0for selling antibiotics without a license.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, filed July 9, alleges Panaderia y Taqueria Chihuas, 4810 Chambers Road, violated a cease-and-desist order the board issued in February. An unknown person filed a complaint in January alleging that the restaurant was selling antibiotics imported from Mexico.<\/p>\n

An undercover investigator visited in February and purchased the anti-parasitic drug mebendazole, according to the lawsuit. He followed up in late March, after the cease-and-desist order, and found the restaurant was selling oxitetraciclina\/polimixina B, a topical antibiotic used for eye infections.<\/p>\n

A person answering the phone at Panaderia y Taqueria Chihuas hung up multiple times when a reporter called asking to talk to someone about the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Representatives from the State Board of Pharmacy declined an interview request.<\/p>\n

Neither drug has any recreational use, and both are relatively easy to get with a prescription. A course of Emverm, the name-brand version of mebendazole<\/a>, costs more than $4,000, while a tube of oxytetracycline\/polymyxin b\u00a0(the U.S.-branded version of the antibiotic) sells for about $30<\/a> per tube.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit doesn\u2019t state how much the restaurant charged for the medications.<\/p>\n

Allegations of non-pharmacies selling prescription drugs are uncommon. The only comparable case in the last three years involved Los Nogales, a restaurant in Meeker, which allegedly dispensed antibiotics and non-narcotic cough medicines. The pharmacy board issued a cease-and-desist order, but didn\u2019t file a lawsuit, in that case.<\/p>\n

Since 2024, the board also issued cease-and-desist orders to two online pharmacies, one selling weight-loss drugs and the other human growth hormone; a veterinary hospital filling prescriptions for pets it hadn\u2019t treated; an out-of-state pharmacy shipping to Colorado without a license; someone selling medications out of an Aurora residence; and the owner of a vending machine at Denver International Airport, for labeling it as \u201cShopAll Pharmacy\u201d without a license.<\/p>\n

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