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HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS
HB 269 2021 Regular Session Kerner
PUBLIC HEALTH/OFFICE: Provides relative to destruction of imported food which is
subject to an import ban
Synopsis of Senate Amendments
1.Makes grammatical changes.
Digest of Bill as Finally Passed by Senate
Present law known as the State Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law provides that whenever a
duly authorized officer or employee of the La. Department of Health (LDH) finds in any
factory, establishment, structure, or vehicle of transportation any meat, seafood, poultry,
vegetables, fruit, or other perishable articles which are unsound or contain any filthy,
decomposed, or putrid substance or that may be poisonous or deleterious to health or
otherwise unsafe for human consumption, a designated officer or employee of LDH shall
immediately condemn or destroy it or in any other manner render it unconsumable as human
food.
Proposed law retains present law and provides that nothing therein, or in any other provision
of present law relative to public health, shall be construed to prohibit any duly authorized
officer or employee of LDH from causing the destruction of any meat, seafood, poultry,
vegetables, fruit, or other perishable articles which are of foreign origin and found to be
subject to a federally issued import ban.
(Amends R.S. 40:635)
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