RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 195 (HB 269) 2021 Regular Session Kerner
Existing 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.
New law provides that nothing therein, or in any other provision of existing 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.
Effective August 1, 2021.
(Amends R.S. 40:635)