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Notice: Shellfish Emergency Rules Rescinded
On December 2, 2025 at 10:00, Chairman McMath convened an oversight hearing of the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare to review two emergency rules published by the Office of Public Health in the October edition of the Louisiana Register (see LR 51:10 [1559 and 1566]). These rules addressed a clarification of LDH’s regulation of the use of shellfish shells as food service containers. After discussion, representatives of the department agreed to revise the pending regular rules and rescind the existing emergency rules. This statement serves as a notice that LDH will exercise its enforcement discretion in not enforcing the rule language published in the October Register.
Sanitarian Services is primarily occupied with enforcing laws, rules and regulations for maintaining and promoting community hygiene; however, they are increasingly orienting themselves to accomplishing their goals through education, enlightenment, and persuasion. Sanitarians are more concerned with developing sanitary standards and technical aspects of engineering, construction, and supervision of operators or various facilities and techniques which are basically design entities and that are conducted toward improving living conditions in communities. Knowledge has so advanced our understanding of environmental hygiene that virtually every entity in our environment has come under the scrutiny of public health,
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Effective June 20, 2002, the Louisiana Sanitary Code was codified and re-promulgated as "Title 51. Public Health-Sanitary Code". Present and future updates to the code can be found in the Louisiana Register.
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