Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 51 - PUBLIC HEALTH-SANITARY CODE
Part IX - Marine and Fresh Water Animal Food Products
Chapter 1 - Shellfish Growing Areas
Section IX-117 - Control of Areas Due to Marine Biotoxins-Satisfactory Compliance [formerly paragraph 9:002-8]
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code IX-117
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. This item will be satisfied when:
1. areas
affected by marine biotoxins shall be the subject of an effective control plan
developed by the Louisiana state health officer and the Secretary of the
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. The plans shall define those
administrative procedures and resources necessary to:
a. initiate an emergency shellfish sampling
and assay program;
b. close areas
and embargo shellfish; and
c.
prevent harvesting of contaminated species. The Louisiana state health officer
and the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries may
designate such affected areas as conditionally approved;
2. during the harvesting season in those
areas where shellfish toxins are likely to occur, representative samples of
shellfish shall be collected from indicator stations and assayed for the
presence of toxins;
3. a quarantine
shall be imposed against the taking of shellfish when the concentration of
paralytic shellfish poison equals or exceeds 80 micrograms per 100 grams of
edible portion of raw shellfish, or when neurotoxic shellfish poison is found
in detectable levels. To implement this quarantine, the growing area shall be
closed, and the prohibition of harvesting shall be enforced;
4. the quarantine shall remain in effect
until such time as the Louisiana state health officer has analytical data to
show that the poison content of shellfish involved is below the quarantine
level. The determination to reopen an area shall consider whether marine
biotoxin levels in the shellfish from adjacent areas are decreasing; and
whether environmental factors such as water temperature, upwelling or bottom
sediments, and numbers of toxic cysts in the sediment are such that conditions
can be expected to be stable. This analysis and determination shall be
adequately documented;
5. the
central file shall contain all information relating to the levels of poison in
the growing areas involving monitoring data, closure notices, evaluation
reports, and reopening notices;
6.
if heat processing is practiced, a control procedure shall be developed. This
procedure shall define the following:
a.
toxicity limits for processing;
b.
controls for harvesting and transporting the shell stock to
processor;
c. special marking for
unprocessed shell stock;
d.
scheduled processes; and
e. end
product controls on the processed shellfish.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:4.A.(1) and R.S. 40:5.3.
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