MEDIA ADVISORY:

Office of Public Health to Unveil Plans for Enhancing Retail Food Inspections

BATON ROUGE - Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Public Health Assistant Secretary J.T. Lane will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 20, at DHH Headquarters, the Bienville Building, to outline the office's plan, in development since February 2012,  to enact more robust, consistent health inspections of retail food establishments statewide.

WHAT: Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals press conference on retail food inspections

WHO:    J.T. Lane, DHH Office of Public Health Assistant Secretary

              Beth Scalco, DHH Office of Public Health Deputy Assistant Secretary

              Tenney Sibley, DHH Office of Public Health Chief Sanitarian

WHEN: 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20

WHERE: Bienville Building (DHH Headquarters), 628 N. 4th St. in downtown Baton Rouge

                Conference Room 173