La. Admin. Code tit. 51 § X-301

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section X-301 - Nutria Inspection Program [formerly paragraph 10:043]

A. In order to protect the health and welfare of consumers and to properly manage the nutria inspection program, an initial pilot program will be established and will include the supervision of a limited number of nutria processing facilities. For the initial pilot program, permits to operate will be issued to a maximum of five qualified applicants. Application for permits to process nutria shall be made on a form provided by the Department of Health and Hospitals. However, no application to process nutria will be accepted after the maximum number of permits have been issued or after the closing of the nutria trapping season. The nutria processing pilot program will commence and cease on dates coinciding with the beginning and ending of the nutria-trapping season as promulgated by the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission. Permits issued by LDHH will expire at midnight of the last official day of the nutria-trapping season. Only nutria taken by licensed trappers will be considered eligible for processing and inspection under the cooperative inspection program. The number of nutria processing plants that will be approved and permitted for nutria processing in future years will be determined each year after the close of the nutria trapping season and after an evaluation of each year's production has been made.

La. Admin. Code tit. 51, § X-301

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health, LR 28:1315 (June 2002).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 40:4.A.(1)(a), (6), (8) and 40:5.(5), (9). Also see R.S. 40:627.