Section 25-A903. FREEZING - PARASITE DESTRUCTION

 

903.1Except as specified in § 903.2, before service or sale in ready-to-eat form, raw, raw-marinated, partially cooked, or marinated-partially cooked fish other than molluscan shellfish shall be:

 

(a)Frozen and stored at a temperature of minus twenty degrees Celsius (-20o  C) (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (- 4o F)) or below for a minimum of one  hundred sixty-eight (168) hours or seven (7) days in a freezer; P 

 

(b)Frozen at minus thirty-five degrees Celsius (-35o C) (minus thirty-one  degrees Fahrenheit (-31o F)) or below until solid and stored at minus  thirty-five degrees Celsius (-35o C) or below for a minimum of fifteen (15)  hours; P or

 

(c)Frozen at minus thirty-five degrees Celsius (-35o C) (minus thirty-one  degrees Fahrenheit (-31o F)) or below until solid and stored at minus  twenty  degrees Celsius (-20o C) (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (- 4o F) or  below for a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours. P

 

903.2Subsection 903.1 does not apply to:

 

(a)Molluscan shellfish;

 

(b)Tuna of the species Thunnus alalunga, Thunnus albacares (Yellowfin  tuna), Thunnus atlanticus, Thunnus maccoyii (Bluefin tuna, Southern),  Thunnus obesus (Bigeye tuna), or Thunnus thynnus (Bluefin tuna,  Northern); or

 

(c)Aquacultured fish, such as salmon, that:

 

(1)If raised in open water, are raised in net-pens, or

 

(2)Are raised in land-based operations such as ponds or tanks, and

 

(3)Are fed formulated feed, such as pellets, that contain no live  parasites infective to the aquacultured fish.

 

authority

Sections 4 and 10 of An Act Relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February 17, 1898 (30 Stat. 246: D.C. Official Code §§ 48-104 and 48-110 (2009 Repl.)); Section 7 of An Act Making Appropriations to provide for the expenses for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes (32 Stat.627: D.C. Official Code § 47-2834(a)(1), (a)(2), and (b) (2005 Repl.)); and Mayor’s Order 2002-103, dated June 18, 2002 and Mayor’s Order 98-139, dated August 20, 1998.

source

Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 4394 (June 6, 2003), incorporating by reference the text of Proposed Rulemaking published at 49 DCR 6184, 6245 (July 5, 2002); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 13690 (November 30, 2012).