La. Admin. Code tit. 51 § XXIII-1911

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XXIII-1911 - Special Requirements for Highly Susceptible Populations

A. In a food establishment that serves a highly susceptible population:

1. prepackaged juice or a prepackaged beverage containing juice must be pasteurized;

2. pasteurized shell eggs or pasteurized liquid, frozen, or dry eggs shall be substituted for raw shell eggs in the preparation of:

a. foods such as Caesar salad, hollandaise or Bearnaise sauce, mayonnaise, egg nog, ice cream, and egg-fortified beverages; and

b. recipes in which more than one egg is broken and the eggs are combined except:

i. when combined immediately before cooking for one consumer's serving at a single meal, cooked to 145°F for 15 seconds and served immediately, such as an omelet, souffle, or scrambled eggs;

ii. when combined as an ingredient immediately before baking and the eggs are thoroughly cooked to a ready-to-eat form, such as a cake, muffin, or bread;

3. the following foods may not be served or offered for sale in a ready to eat form:

a. raw animal foods such as raw fish, raw-marinated fish, raw molluscan shellfish, and steak tartare;

b. a partially cooked animal food such as lightly cooked fish, rare meat, soft cooked eggs that are made from raw shell eggs, and meringue; and

c. raw seed sprouts.

La. Admin. Code tit. 51, § XXIII-1911

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health, LR 28:323 (February 2002), amended LR 28:1417 (June 2002), LR 33:849 (May 2007).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:4.