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-139 - Records of Shellfish Purchases and Sales [formerly paragraph 9:003]
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code IX-139
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Every person, firm or corporation who conducts any wholesale business of buying, selling or shipping shellfish shall keep an accurate daily record which shall include shipping documents.
1. Each shellfish
shipment shall be accompanied by a shipping document which shall contain:
a. the name, address, and certification
number of the shipping dealer;
b.
the name and address of the major consignee; and
c. the kind and quantity of the shellfish
product.
2. The
receiving dealer shall:
a. maintain in his
files a copy of the completed shipping document; and
b. make the shipping document available to
the authority upon request.
3. If the shipment is subdivided to different
dealers, each receiving dealer shall maintain records sufficient to trace his
portion back to the original shipment.
B. Transaction and Shipping Records. Each dealer shall have a business address at which transaction records are maintained. Each dealer shall maintain accurate and legible transaction records that are sufficient to:
1. document that the
shellfish are from an authorized source;
2. permit a container of shellfish to be
traced back to the specific incoming lot of shucked shellfish from which it was
taken;
3. permit a lot of shucked
shellfish or a lot of shellstock to be traced back to the growing area(s),
date(s) of harvest, date and location of wet storage, if applicable, and if
possible, the harvester or group of harvesters.
4. trace the wet storage history of the
shellstock including, original harvest site, original harvest date, wet storage
site(s) and dates.
5. purchase and
sales shall be recorded within 72 hours of any purchase or sales:
a. in a permanently bound ledger book;
or
b. computer record, or other
method acceptable to and authorized by the Molluscan Shellfish
Program;
6. the
transaction records shall be retained:
a. in
the case of fresh shellfish, for a minimum of one year; and
b. in the case of frozen shellfish, for at
least two years or the shelf life of the product, whichever is
longer.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:4.A.(1) and R.S. 40:5.3.
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