LAC 51:VII.335. Suspension of Permit Based on Laboratory Analyses - Adulteration or Contamination with Pathogenic Microorganisms of Human Significance

A. Should any raw milk supply or dairy product including frozen desserts, anomalous milk and milk products and filled dairy products be found to be adulterated (water, drug residues, pesticide/herbicides, etc.), the state health officer shall immediately suspend the permit and place all product that may reasonably likely be adulterated, under official seizure. The state health officer shall require that the owner of the adulterated product, expeditiously remove any of the product that had entered commerce and to comply with instructions from the state health officer for the disposition of such product. B. Should any pasteurized dairy product, including frozen desserts, anomalous milk and milk products and filled dairy products be found to contain one or more pathogenic microorganisms of human significance, the state health officer shall immediately suspend the permit and place all contaminated product and all product reasonably likely to be contaminated under official seizure. The state health officer shall require the owner of the product to expeditiously remove any of the product that had entered commerce and to comply with instructions from the state health officer for the disposition of such product. Provided, further, that raw and heat treated dairy products are excluded from this requirement. C. Whenever the pasteurization recording charts for products requiring pasteurization are not available for review, the state health officer shall suspend the permit for the product and place under official seizure and require that any product involved that has entered commerce be recalled by the processor and disposed of as directed by the state health officer.