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-135 - Fees for Services [formerly paragraph 9:002-17]

A. Fees for evaluations, analysis, determination, processing and reporting of results shall be incorporated into the Louisiana Molluscan Shellfish Program fee and assessed in accordance with rules and regulations controlling their collection.

B. The department shall charge and collect an imported seafood safety fee of one hundred dollars annually from each holder of a commercial seafood permit fee who sells imported seafood. The proceeds of such fee shall be used for the purposes described in R.S. 40:5.10.1. Pursuant to said statute, the department or its agents or contractors may conduct sampling of imported seafood stored on the premises of any business holding a commercial seafood permit issued pursuant to R.S. 40:31.35, the scope and frequency of which shall be within the discretion of the department. Samples collected pursuant to this Subsection may be laboratory tested at the discretion of the Department for any substances prohibited in applicable types or categories of seafood by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Such testing shall be conducted by laboratories accredited therefor by the FDA or an FDA-recognized accreditation body.