The person-in-charge shall ensure that:

1. A. After being picked and packed in ice, blast chilled, or otherwise cooled in a sanitary and effective way, fresh crab meat is kept in ice or in an ambient air temperature of 40°F or less;
2. B. Except when pasteurized within 2.5 hours of weigh-up in the packing room, packed crab meat for pasteurization is kept in ice or in an ambient air temperature of 40°F or below until pasteurization;
3. C. Pasteurized crab meat in hermetically sealed containers is kept in an ambient air temperature of 38°F or below;
4. D. Reduced oxygen packaged non-pasteurized crab meat is kept frozen; and
5. E. Crab meat is protected from contamination during storage.

Authority: Health-General Article, §§18-102, 21-211, 21-234, 21-304, 21-321, 21-339, 21-340, and 21-350, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: March 15, 1955

Amended effective September 3, 1957

Regulations .01—.06 amended effective September 14, 1977 (4:19 Md. R. 1468)

Regulation .03C amended and .05-1 adopted effective September 30, 1994 (21:9 Md. R. 751)

Regulations .01—.06 repealed and new Regulations .01—.15 adopted effective August 5, 2002 (29:15 Md. R. 1142)

Regulation .01B amended effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .02 repealed effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .05B, C amended effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .07G amended effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .08C—E amended effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .09 amended effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .10 amended effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .11B amended effective February 15, 2016 (43:3 Md. R. 272)

Regulation .11H, J amended effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .12 amended effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .13B, D amended effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .14 amended effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .15B, C amended effective February 12, 2018 (45:3 Md. R. 157)

Regulation .15C amended effective February 15, 2016 (43:3 Md. R. 272)

Regulation .15E repealed effective February 15, 2016 (43:3 Md. R. 272)