LAC 49:I.131. Size of Samples [Formerly 49:1.0180]

A. When an officer or employee of the department collects an official sample of a food, drug or cosmetic for analysis under the Act, he shall collect at least twice the quantity sufficient for analysis, unless: 1. the amount of the article available and reasonably accessible for sampling is less than twice the quantity so needed; 2. the cost of twice the quantity so needed exceeds $10; 3. the article is perishable; named on the label of the article, or his agent, and 4. the sample is collected from the owner of the article, or his agent, and such person is also the owner of the article; 5. the sample is collected from the owner of the article, or his agent, and such article bears no label, or, if it bears a label no person is named thereon; or 6. the analysis consists principally of rapid analytical procedures, organoleptic examination, or other field inspection examinations or tests, made at the place where the sample is collected or in a mobile or temporary laboratory.