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Secure .gov websites use HTTPS LDH is moving forward with a plan to distribute food benefits on EBT cards. If the USDA, who administers the SNAP program, is prepared and ready to move money into states’ accounts, we will use federal dollars to fund SNAP recipients’ accounts. If they are not ready, LDH will proceed with our state-funded program to provide food assistance to the elderly, the disabled, and households with children through their existing EBT cards.
September 05, 2014 SECOND OVERSIGHT REPORT: Registration of Foods, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Prophylactic ProductsFinal Rule Proposed by October 20, 2014
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, - The Office of Public Health proposes four amendments to Title 51, Part VI Sections 101 and 105 (Manufacturing, Processing, Packing, and Holding of Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics). The first proposed rule change in Section 101 adds definitions relative to product registration. The second proposed rule change corrects some obsolete program and department references 105.A. The third proposed rule change corrects an additional obsolete reference in 105.E and corrects a typographical reference to a nonexistent section “1” of R.S. 40:628. The fourth proposed rule change eliminates the fee schedule and replaces it with section 105.F to indicate that OPH shall charge a fee for product registrations in accordance with R.S. 40:628 and R.S. 40:716.