La. Admin. Code tit. 49, § I-963 - Meat and Meat Products, Must and Sound and Wholesome [Formerly 49:3.1500]

A. All meats and meat products, whether fresh or cured, shall be subject to inspection at any time during reasonable working hours, in order to determine whether the same are sound, healthful, wholesome and fit for human food. If upon inspection any article is found to have become unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human food, the original mark stamp or label thereon shall be removed or defaced and the article condemned; provided that:

1. if an article becomes soiled or unclean by falling on the floor or in any other accidental way whereby the meat or meat product may be cleaned or trimmed to remove or repair all soiled areas;

2. if an article is found to have absorbed a foreign odor, contains mold or similar substance or, in the case of rendered animal fat, there is present tank water in the first stage of sourness, and the article is capable of being rehandled by approved methods to recondition it for food purposes if the necessary steps are taken immediately, such reconditioning may be permitted; provided that upon final reinspection if the article is found to be sound and wholesome it may be approved for human food; otherwise it shall be condemned and either destroyed or rendered into tankage.

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La. Admin. Code tit. 49, § I-963

Adopted by the Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Preventive and Public Health Services, September 1968.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, Title 40, as amended.